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July 2016 was the hottest month in history

Июль 2016 года оказался самым жарким месяцем в истории

July 2016, recognized the hottest month on record worldwide. NASA climate scientists say that the month not only beat the previous record set in 2015, but continues the series of the ten warmest months. About it reports The Independent.

NASA experts say that July was 1.3 degrees Celsius hotter average pre-industrial era. About 0.2 degrees of this growth is associated with the effect of a strong El niño, and the remaining 1.1 degrees — the result of human-caused global warming.

According to the National oceanic and atmospheric administration (USA), which calculates global temperatures in a different system, it’s been 14 record hot months. A summary of the July, the Office has not yet released.

Scientists are concerned that the last record has little to do with El niño, which significantly weakened in the summer. Before the high temperatures of 2016, explained this phenomenon, nagrevaem waters of the Pacific ocean.

In addition, climatologists fear that the public will cease to pay attention to the temperature records, as they occur almost monthly. “The worst thing is that we are entering an era when strange would be if each new month and year will be the hottest on record” — said Chris field (Chris Field from Stanford.

In 2015 the Meteorological office of great Britain warned that the next two years on Earth will be the hottest in history. To such conclusion scientists have given two months before the UN action in Paris, dedicated to global climate change.

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