Global Temperatures are Soaring
Global Temperatures 1880 – 2015
US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA
- The hottest year on record is 2015 (see the right-most red rectangle on the graph)
- The second hottest year is 2014
- Temperatures have increased by 0.67°C per century between 1880 and 2014.
- This is shown on the graph, by the black line moving from bottom left to top right. It is the Long Term Trend Line and is rising by 0.67°C per century.
Note:
- The average global temperature for each year is shown, on the graph, by a rectangle
- The blue rectangles show temperatures below the average
- The red rectangles show temperatures above the average
- These “temperature anomalies” are the temperature differences from the average temperature.
Global Analysis of year 2015
Climate Council Report on 2015
http://www.climatecouncil.org.au/uploads/d8ed2731739da328fe6149ca1e17f9a9.pdf
NOAA 2014 Global Analysis
The US National Climatic Data Centre (NOAA) “Global Analysis: Annual 2014” states:
- 2014 was the warmest year across the world’s land and ocean surfaces since recordkeeping began in 1880.
- The average temperature for 2014 was 0.69°C above the 20th century average of 13.9°C, beating the previous record warmth of 2010 and 2005 by 0.04°C.
- 2014 becomes the 38th consecutive year, since 1977, that the yearly global temperature was above average. [1977 is the most recent blue bar on the above graph.]
- Nine of the 10 warmest years, in the 135-year period of record, have occurred in the 14 years of this century. The hottest year last century was 1998 and it is now the fourth warmest year on record.
- In 2014 the globe reached record warmth despite an absence of El Niño conditions. This is important as El Niño conditions tend to increase global temperatures.
- 2014 was the warmest year on record for many countries including: the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, and Germany
- For Australia, 2013 remains the warmest year on record, with 2014 becoming the third warmest in the 105 year record.
(Global Analysis: Annual 2014: NOAA)
www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/
Australia’s hottest year remains 2013
“2013 will go down as the year that registered Australia’s hottest day, month, season, and … calendar year. … We’re not tinkering away at records – they’re being absolutely blitzed.”
(Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 2013)
(Bureau of Meteorology: Australia’s 2013 Climate Statement)
2015 was Australia’s fifth-warmest year on record, while national rainfall was slightly below average according to data collected and analysed by the Bureau of Meteorology.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/annual/aus/
The temperature increase is already damaging
We are already experiencing significant impacts of this warming:
- Hotter weather with extended fire seasons
- Droughts, bushfires and floods are more frequent and intense
- The distribution of plants and animals is shifting towards the poles,
- The planet is losing ice
- The oceans are rising faster
It is not sustainable for us to have global temperature increasing like this.
The Temperature Graph Comes from
* US National Climate Data Centre (NCDC)
* US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
You can generate the temperature graph here
Select Timescale = “Annual”
Tick “Display Trend”
Select trend shown “per century”
Click “Plot”
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- Global sea level and temperature at record high in 2014
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References
National Climate Data Centre (NCDC)
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)