May was hottest month on record...
Temperatures in May were the hottest ever recorded, scientists have said, making “abnormal the new normal”.
Last month was the 13th in a row that temperatures have been recorded as above average for the time of year.
May also saw record rises in levels of carbon dioxide in Antarctica, the last region to be affected by high concentrations of the greenhouse gas.
This year is now the hottest on record, and it was also revealed that the northern hemisphere has experienced its hottest ever spring.
Global temperature records were broken across land and sea in May, according to data from NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atomopheric and Atmospheric (NOAA).
At 15.67C, temperatures were 0.87C more than the 20th century average of 14.8C.
Despite the El Niño weather system - which has now ended - strongly influencing global weather, scientists insist the underlying cause of the warming were greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere by humans.
“The state of the climate so far this year gives us much cause for alarm,” said David Carlson, Director of the World Climate Research Programme. “Exceptionally high temperatures. Ice melt rates in March and May that we don’t normally see until July. Once-in-a-generation rainfall events. The super El Niño is only partly to blame. Abnormal is the new normal.”
Source: Will Worley
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