Andthe data is in . September 2016 was officially the hot September on record , bewilder the late criminal record holding month fix in 2014 by a razor - thin margin . This simply adds once again to the hottest month records heap up , but more importantly , it all but warrant that 2016 will be the hot yr on phonograph record .
The all too familiar news , which we have been hearing each and every calendar month for the past 12 consecutive calendar month , has been announced by NASA . September this year was found to be0.91C ( 1.6F)hotter than the 1951 - 1980 average used by the constitution as their benchmark . But as we ’ve explained a countless number of times , because the planet has been warming at an accelerated pace since at least the 1880s when the industrial revolution kicked off , the genuine figure is undoubtedly much higher .
Whileas early as Maythere was mean to be a 99 pct chance 2016 would nail the yearly record , this latest data point Seth stand for that 2016 “ seems locked in ” to be the quick accord to NASA ’s Director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies , Gavin Schmidt . The current prediction suggests that the year will be somewhere around 1.25 ° C ( 2.25 ° F ) warm than average .
Last month only just beat the former record , by around 0.004 ° C ( 0.0072 ° F ) , which have in mind that by some cadence it is actually a tie with September 2014 , and may lose the summit of spicy September when the numbers are reanalysed . But it is indicative of a far more worrying trend . While NASA ’s stats think that 11 out of the last 12 consecutive months have been the warm , the public figure from the NOAA find that July was already the fourteenth hot month in a row .
This record - setting streakis expected to slowas the high temperature - busting El Niño fades . But as Schmidt has already pointed out , the track record would likely have been set irrespective , just perhaps not by the record - shattering margins that we have seen . And regardless , the drift of each yr getting warm and warmer is unembellished for anyone to see .
With an increment in extreme weather events , from droughts to wildfires , the global climate is undoubtedly deepen . From November 4 the Paris mood agreementwill come into force , mean that all nations will be de jure reverberate to reduce their carbon paper expelling . Whether this will be enough in time , will have to be seen .
Monthly temperature anomalies with base 1980 - 2015 , superpose on a 1980 - 2015 average seasonal cycle . NASA / GISS / Schmidt
