Cruel April The Hottest Month By Record Margin

April breaks global temperature record, marking seven months of new highs; Latest monthly figures add to string of recent temperature records and all but assure 2016 will be hottest year on record

Michael Slezak, 15 May 2016 (UK Guardian)

“...…[Chaucer’s ‘cruelest month’ of April was the hottest on record globally this year] – and the seventh month in a row to have broken global temperature records…The latest figures smashed the previous record for April by the largest margin ever recorded…It makes three months in a row that the monthly record has been broken by the largest margin ever, and seven months in a row that are at least 1C above the 1951-80 mean for that month…[The string of record-smashing months has scientists talking about a climate emergency that] all but assures that 2016 will be the hottest year on record, and probably by the largest margin ever…[It] is being spurred by a massive El Niño…But it’s not the biggest El Niño on record and that spike in temperatures is occurring over a background of rapid global warming...wreaking havoc with ecosystems around the world…” click here for more

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