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| Mark Howden. |
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| Janette Lindesay. |
It’s official:
2015 was the hottest year on record. The US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has confirmed overnight that 2015 saw the global
average temperature climbing to 0.90°C above the 20th-century average of
13.9°C. The record has been confirmed by the UK Met Office.
It’s been only a year since the record was previously
broken, but 2015 stands out as an extraordinarily hot year. 2014, the previous
hottest year, was 0.74°C above the global average. December 2015 marks the first
time in the NOAA record a global monthly temperature anomaly has exceeded 1°C -
it reached 1.11°C.
Read the piece on The
Conversation by the Professor of
Climatology at the Australian National University, Janette Lindesay, and a
research scientist at the Agriculture Flagship of the CSIRO, Mark Howden - “It’s official: 2015 was the hottest year ever recorded.”
