NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies said global sea
and land temperatures last year were 0.99 degrees warmer than average for the
1951-1980 benchmark period, eclipsing the previous high set only a year earlier
by 0.12 degrees.
The World Meteorological Organisation, which uses data from
NASA, the UK Met Office Hadley Centre and the University of East Anglia's
Climatic Research Unit, said temperatures in 2016 were about 1.1 degrees higher
than the pre-industrial period, or about 0.83 degrees above the 1961-1990
reference period. That beat the 2015 record by 0.07 degrees.
"2016 was an extreme year for the global climate and
stands out as the hottest year on record," said WMO Secretary-General
Petteri Taalas.
Read Peter Hannam’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “'Extreme year': 2016 declared hottest year on record as climate change builds on big El Nino.”
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