For a third calendar month in a row , temperature records have been smashed , and by an increasingly unnerving allowance . This February turn over out to not only be the hottest February on record , but also the warmest by anunprecedented amount , breaking the phonograph recording set only last calendar month by January . What has seemingly become a worrying trend of increasing temperature record has sparked warnings of a quickly develop “ clime emergency . ”
February Smashes Earth ’s All - Time Global Heat Record by a Jaw - Dropping Marginhttps://t.co/6B937T0Uk9pic.twitter.com/uZqvum4aVA
— Stefan Rahmstorf ( @rahmstorf)March 13 , 2016
This comesjust a monthafter January was find out to break the same record at 1.14 ° cytosine ( 2.3 ° degree Fahrenheit ) above the 1951 - 1980 average , which at the time was seen as an unprecedented increase . To put that into perspective , February beat the January record by a full 0.21 ° C ( 0.38 ° F ) , an extraordinary ramp up in thawing . Not only that , but it also quiver the former hottest February , which was set in 1998 during the tiptop of the potent El Niño on record , although that could also be beaten when all the data comes in about the current one we ’re get .
The Northern Hemisphere is being warmed far quicker than the Southern Hemisphere , with the Arctic being nail by rising temperatures . NASA
While the massive El Niño is recall to have played a persona in the string of temperature phonograph recording that have been specify over the preceding month , experts thinkthat the records would have been smashed regardless . El Niño is only thought to have contributed to a maximum of 0.2 ° C ( 0.32 ° F ) of the warming , while even then the temperature that we ’re read might only be scratching the surface . The Brobdingnagian majority of warmth is engulf and stored in the depths of the oceans , and yet we ’re only recording the temperature from the surface and atmosphere .
This rise in fair temperatures is worry enough , but the allowance isconsiderably largerwhen front at the Northern Hemisphere , which has see temperature increase by 2.76 ° C ( 4.16 ° degree Fahrenheit ) , and the Arctic , which is up a terrifying 5.36 ° C ( 8.58 ° F ) . All this is contribute to a growing physical structure of grounds that the satellite is warm at such a rate and to such a degree that we are apace rifle to present a climate exigency . This will be one in which extreme atmospheric condition events such as heat wave , floods , and timberland ardor are no longer a rarified event but a regular natural event . Millions of multitude could face food shortages , translation , and even death .
