This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
N.B. If this article sounds familiar, it should. This has been happening so frequently I just copied the post for March and updated it.
October. November. December. January. February. March. And now April.
For the sixth seventh month in a row, we’ve had a month that has broken the global high temperature record. And not just broken it, but shattered it, blasting through it like the previous record wasn’t even there.
No human alive has seen a month of March April like this before.NASA GISS
According to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, March April 2016 was the hottest March April on record, going back 136 years. It was a staggering 1.28 degrees C 1.11 degrees C above average across the planet.* The previous March April record, from 2010, was 0.92 degrees C 0.87 degrees C above average. This year took a huge jump over that.
Welcome to the new normal, and our new world.
As you can see from the map above, much of this incredible heat spike is located in the extr... Read more
