(AdnKronos) – Climate, will 2016 be the hottest year ever? “With the April update, there is a more than 99% chance that 2016 will be a new record-breaking year.” The alarm tweet is from Gavin Schmidt, a NASA scientist, which leaves little room for the imagination. After an anomalous autumn and winter, it seems that higher than average temperatures are not about to abandon us, on the contrary. In October, November and December more than one degree more was recorded (from 1,01 to 1,10), while in the first 4 months of 2016 +1,33 (February), +1,29 (March ) and 1,11 in April, the warmest April ever on the 1951-1980 XNUMX-year average.
With Apr update, 2016 still > 99% likely to be a new record (assuming historical ytd/ann patterns valid). pic.twitter.com/GTN9sPL2D7
— Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) 14 May 2016
The probable and, at this point, practically certain consequence of all this is that 2016 risks going down in history as the hottest year ever. A series of records never achieved so far lean towards this result. Last month of April was the hottest globally recorded by NASA which released the new data.
