Evidence of warming planet in overdrive in 2016

The planet at its hottest since
records have been kept.

From hot oceans to shrinking Arctic ice and glaciers, the evidence of a warming planet has gone into overdrive in the first three months of 2016.

Australia has just posted its hottest March in more than a century of reliable data after a scorching heatwave to start the month that the Bureau of Meteorology said in some areas approached "record levels for any time of the year".

NSW blew away records that had stood since 1940 and Victoria eclipsed the previous hottest March for mean temperatures, set in in 1974.

Read Peter Hannam’s story in The Sydney Morning Herald - “Record patch of warm waters point to more global heat records being smashed.”