Report posts 'grim picture' of world's 2015 climate

Blatant - this chart illustrates conclusively
the Australia's temperatures are rising.

The State of the Climate in 2015 report, led by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was released yesterday. Unfortunately, it paints a grim picture of the world’s climate last year.

For a second consecutive year the globe experienced its hottest year on record, beating the 2014 record by more than 0.1℃. From May 2015 onwards, each month set a temperature record for that particular month, a pattern that has yet to end.

The record-breaking temperature anomaly in 2015 (around 1℃ higher, on average, than what would be expected in a world without humans) was in large part due to human-caused climate change. A small fraction of the heat was because of a major El Niño event, which developed midway through 2015 and ran into this year.

During El Niño events we see warmer sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean. A resulting transfer of heat from the ocean into the lower atmosphere causes a temporary warming effect. In La Niña seasons, the opposite happens

Read the piece on The Conversation by a Climate Extremes Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Andrew King, and a Research Fellow from the University of New South Wales, Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick -  “State of the Climate 2015: global warming and El Niño sent records tumbling.”