February temperatures stoke 'climate emergency' concerns

Is the sun rising on a climate emergency?

Global temperatures leapt in February, lifting warming from pre-industrial levels to beyond 1.5 degrees, and stoking concerns about a "climate emergency".

According to NASA analysis, average temperatures last month were 1.35 degrees above the norm for the 1951-1980 period.

They smashed the previous biggest departure from the average - set only in the previous month - by 0.21 degrees.

Read Peter Hannam’s story in today’s Sydney Morning Herald - “'True shocker': February spike in global temperatures stuns scientists.”