Hottest June on record continues 14-month global heat wave

“The average temperatures are so in excess of any first part of the year we’ve seen it’s something worthy of note”, said Gavin Schmidt, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in NY.

Rising temperature of earth is breaking all previous records, thanks to climate change. This trend suggests 2016 will surpass 2015 as the hottest year on record, NASA said. According to Schmidt, he has measured the chances of rest of the 2016 to be hotter by considering first six months.

The planet’s average land temperature in June was 2.23 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the 20th century monthly average, tied at an all-time record for June that was struck a year ago.

The warming in the first half of this year extended across all parts of the planet except for most of Antarctica, Dr. Schmidt said.

ABoVE consists of dozens individual experiments that over years will study the region’s changing forests, the cycle of carbon movement between the atmosphere and land, thawing permafrost, the relationship between fire and climate change, and more.

The NASA team said El Niño’s warming influence will disappear by the end of the year, causing 2017 to be cooler.

During summer, Arctic sea ice extent is now covering 40 percent less than what records show from the late 1970s and early 1980s.

For past few decades, the warming trend is remaining consistent.

Basically what Schmidt is saying is that these records would have still been set even without the strong El Nino, though not to the extreme as what we have seen.

The study paper published in the scientific journal Phys News informed.

The first six months of the year were also record warm as the Earth is well on its way to the warmest year on record, according to data from both NOAA and NASA.

With Junes record heat, the year-to-date is 1.89°F (1.05°C) above the 20th century average, according to NOAA, and 1.96°F (1.09°C) above the 1951-1980 average according to NASA.

The first six months of 2016 have been 1.3C above the average in 1880 and almost 1.5C higher than pre-industrial levels, he said.

While these two key climate indicators have broken records in 2016, NASA scientists said it is more significant that global temperature and Arctic sea ice are continuing their decades-long trends of change.

As of this writing, we’ve just come off the fifth record-low sea ice month this year.

Last week NASA’s Operation IceBridge campaign began conducting airborne measurements on how large and deep melting pools in the Arctic have become, to better understand how fast the ice is melting.

Sea ice is frozen ocean water that melts each summer and refreezes each winter.

A report published in the NPR News said, “Let’s look at June”.

The average sea surface temperature was 1.39 degrees Fahrenheit above last century’s monthly average. How about January? Hottest ever.

No human alive has seen a March April May June like this before. Every month in 2016 has been warmer than ever, at least since people started keeping reliable records – that was 1880. Then 2016 burst on the scene, with temperatures at the North Pole rising some fifty degrees Fahrenheit above normal.