2016 to Be the Hottest Year Ever as Earth Temperature Continues to Rise
Reports of El Niňo are also battering global leaders and scientists who have been warning about the catastrophic results of rising temperatures since the 1980s.
As the world continues to experience extreme heat, new data from NASA reveals that 2016 will be the hottest year yet in history as April has slammed previous records of the hottest month.
According to CNN, NASA's recent studies state that land and sea temperatures last month were 1.11 degrees Celsius warmer compared to the average degrees that April usually recorded between 1951 to 1980.
NASA has been using the mentioned period to study climate change and aside from April smashing records of the past, it also made another record of being the seventh month in a row to rise above the average temperatures by at least 1 degree Celsius.
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Scientists have recently announced a "climate emergency" that is putting a lot of pressure on leaders, organizations and countries involved in the Paris agreement, wherein pledges were made to ensure that work will be done in keeping temperatures from rising.
Hot air is spreading all around the globe, and according to The Guardian, massive reports of El Niňo are also battering global leaders and scientists who have been warning about the catastrophic results of rising temperatures since the 1980s.
Director of the ARC Center of Excellence for Climate System Science at the University of New South Wales in Australia, Andy Pitman, said, "The interesting thing is the scale at which we're breaking records. It's clearly all heading in the wrong direction."
Pitman went on to explain that the "thing" that's igniting warmer weather is not stopping and it is already expected that Earth will see a warmer La Niňa than what has occurred some decades back.
The rising temperatures have also been affecting ecosystems such as Australia's Great Barrier Reef. About 93 percent of the reefs have been suffering from coral bleaching, wherein corals stressed by conditions in the water such as warmer seas will cause them to expel algae. When algae, which is the corals' major source of food, is expelled from their tissues, the corals will turn completely white, allowing them to be susceptible to diseases.
Scientists and global warming experts say there will be a catastrophic effect around the world once Earth breaches its threshold of two degrees -- wildfires will be more rampant, hurricanes will get stronger, crops will be scarce, ice will continue to melt, and more animals might turn extinct.
