(Newswire.net — May 17, 2016) — United States Federal Government agency NASA announced disturbing news that April this year was the warmest April on record, and that March 2016 was the warmest in the last 136 years. The data shows that the rise in global temperature is constant, and that the world should be worried.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has said last month that October, November and December 2015, and January and February of this year have broken the record of global temperatures and that this trend will continue.
According to the new report by NASA, in April, the temperature globally was higher by 1.1 percent compared to measurements from 1951 to 1980, making April the seventh month in a row to have broken global temperature records.
Meteorologist Eric Holthaus said that this new report by NASA is big news, and scientists do not know how things will develop. They know that El Niño, which is the release of warm water across the Pacific Ocean, has an impact on global temperature, but nobody expected such a rise. It’s not the biggest El Niño on record, explained the meteorologist, adding that the rise in temperatures is also because of rapid global warming.
He also added that the experts believe in the opinion that global temperatures in the last year have increased by 25 percent, compared to measurements from 1880.
Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, concluded that scientists can already predict that 2016 will be the warmest year to date.
Scientists began talking about a climate emergency, and they warn of the fact that record temperatures are causing chaos with ecosystems around the world.
Andy Pitman, director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science at the University of New South Wales in Australia, told the Guardian that climate scientists have been warning us about this since at least the 1980’s.
“It’s been bloody obvious since the 2000s. So where’s the surprise?”, said Pitman.