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Originally shared by Charles Younger

NOAA Climate Report Confirms 2016 Was Planet’s Hottest Year on Record

The planet was hotter in 2016 than any year since record-keeping began more than a century ago, NOAA confirmed Thursday in a new State of the Climate report.

Last year surpassed 2015 as the warmest in 137 years of records and was the third consecutive year a new record high was achieved, according to the report released Thursday afternoon. NOAA attributed the record warmth to global warming, but also a strong El Niño in early 2016.

Sea surface temperatures were also the warmest on record, the report confirmed. Since 2000, seas are warming at 2.92 degrees Fahrenheit per century, far above the 1950-2016 trend of warming at 1.8 degrees per century – yet another suggestion that global warming is accelerating.

Global sea levels rose to another record high and are now about 3.25 inches higher than the 1993 average, and 2016 was the sixth consecutive year of sea level rise. Seas have averaged a rise of 0.13 inches per year in the past two decades and are rising fastest in the Indian and western Pacific oceans, the report also said.

https://weather.com/science/environment/news/noaa-climate-report-record-global-warmth-2016