2015 may be the hottest year on the planet in history

Do you think that nature seems to have gone crazy, relentlessly, year after year, presenting new surprises? And if in one corner of the planet people are tired of abnormal rain and unusual cold, then in the other hemisphere at the same time people go crazy from the unbearable heat. Nature is protected from the destructive influence of man through global warming. The most radical scientists put forward an unthinkable, it would seem, theory of a catastrophic pole shift. However, once our planet has experienced such a phenomenon ...

What did the year 2015 bring?

And now let us turn to the real facts of recent months. The current year promises to be the hottest in the new history, which became clear even from the second half of 2014. Even then, the abnormal heat took a record pace, and there were no prerequisites that this trend would slow or stop. This year, August has already become the sixth month, the average temperature of which has surpassed those of the previous period.

Just think! Six months out of eight broke the temperature records. And that is not the limit. Note that weather data from around the world have been processed by the Environmental Information Center (NCEI). According to the calculations of ecologists, 2015 with a probability of 97% has a chance to become the hottest year in history.

Is it worth waiting for normalization?

As we have already noted, researchers scrupulously monitor all current weather data over the past months. Record hot January immediately made it clear to scientists that no immediate slowdown in the growth rates of average temperatures is foreseen. In addition, the graph, which displays the peak periods of the past six years, is steadily growing. If you compare the horse racing, it becomes clear that in the near future you should not wait for the normalization of the average temperature.

And for some cooling to occur, serious preconditions or anomalous phenomena are needed for this. In the meantime, environmentalists continue to monitor the temperature in the hope that, for at least several months in a row, the indicators will be able to hold at a mark within the average temperatures of the 20th century. But, to my great regret, this did not happen since 1980.

The warmest ocean temperatures

August 2015 set a record for the warmest ocean temperatures in history. True, on land this month broke the previous record by 2 degrees Fahrenheit. Oceans with their giant squares react very slowly to weather changes. That's why scientists suggest that by the end of the year the situation is unlikely to change.

Conclusion

Whole decades of anthropogenic warming have led the planet to what it has now. This point, when 368 consecutive months the temperature was higher than normal. In addition, for 100 years the opposite records were not updated, and the coldest month in history was not observed.