And we ’ve done it again , breaking another global monthly temperature record . Depressingly , there is n’t much go forth to say on this now , except that data released by both NASA and the Japanese Meteorological Agency ( JMA ) has reassert that March 2016 was thehottest March ever recorded .
This pushes us nearer and closer to that 2 ° deoxycytidine monophosphate ( 3.6 ° farad ) of warming that scientists and researchers have warned could well be the tipping point . With the string of monthly records violate so far , though – 11 in a run-in to date – some suggest that it might already be too recent .
TheJMA reportthat March was not only the hot March on record , but that it erupt the record by the largest gross profit margin , just likeFebruaryandJanuarydid before it . Their figures show that the calendar month was 1.07 ° C ( 1.9 ° degree Fahrenheit ) hotter than the global average for that month calculated from 1891 . While the data fromNASA confirmsthat March was the warmest on disk , it deviates slightly in that while they read March as being 1.65 ° C ( 2.97 ° degree Fahrenheit ) above the 1965 to 1980 norm , it was still beaten by the late month as the record February was 1.71 ° C ( 3.1 ° F ) higher .
With this continual creep in world-wide temperatures , the impacts have been sense around the globe . The Arctic this class saw thelowest wintertime extentof sea ice , run many scientist to interest what will be seen come summertime when temperatures increase even more . Glaciers in Greenland have begun meltinga full month earlierthan common , and not only that but at a charge per unit more similar to what would be expected for July .
Go to the other hemisphere , and the Great Barrier Reef is facing one of the worst bleaching events ever recorded . An estimated95 percent of coralfound between Papua New Guinea and Cairns , Australia , is call back to have experienced some bleaching , which is the consequence of a warming ocean .
While , yes , some of the warming can be ascribe to a potentially record - breaking El Niño , many agree we would have seen the continual ascension of temperature without its added input . In addition to that , the weather system is also but releasing all the energy that has been stored in the ocean depths over the past few ten , again as a final result of the continual outturn of carbon into the air .
The release of the latest batch of data on our ever - heating system climate comes just day before 130 leaders are expected to gather at the United Nations on April 22 to sign the Paris Climate agreement . This will tie the signatory to their promise to keep global warming below the 2 ° hundred ( 3.6 ° F ) limit , and endeavor to keep it at 1.5 ° C ( 2.7 ° F ) .
Already , both China and the U.S. , two of the biggest C - utter nations , have said that they will ratify the agreement , congeal the level for more rural area to keep an eye on suit . In fact , China and the U.S. are evenleading the pushto implement the Paris spate well before the official deadline of 2020 , perchance as early as 2016 or 2017 .
