A man walks through a dried-up Sarkhej lake on a hot summer day in Ahmedabad, India, April 21, 2016. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo
Posted on 07/21/2016 7:25:40 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
GENEVA (Reuters) - The earth is on track for its hottest year on record and warming at a faster rate than expected, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday.
Temperatures recorded mainly in the northern hemisphere in the first six months of the year, coupled with an early and fast Arctic sea ice melt and "new highs" in heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels, point to quickening climate change, it said.
June marked the 14th straight month of record heat, the United Nations agency said. It called for speedy implementation of a global pact reached in Paris last December to limit climate change by shifting from fossil fuels to green energy by 2100.
"What we’ve seen so far for the first six months of 2016 is really quite alarming," David Carlson, director of the WMO’s Climate Research Program, told a news briefing.
"This year suggests that the planet can warm up faster than we expected in a much shorter time... We don’t have as much time as we thought."
The average temperature in the first six months of 2016 was 1.3° Celsius (2.4° Fahrenheit) warmer than the pre-industrial era of the late 19th Century, according to space agency NASA.
Under the Paris Agreement, nearly 200 governments agreed to limit global warming to well below 2°C (3.6°F) above pre-industrial levels, while "pursuing efforts" for a ceiling of 1.5°C - a lower limit already close to being reached.
The last month with global temperatures below the 20th century average was December 1984, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
A man walks through a dried-up Sarkhej lake on a hot summer day in Ahmedabad, India, April 21, 2016. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo
White canvas covers protect parts of the Rhone glacier against melting as visitors enter an ice cave near the Furka mountain pass in the Swiss Alps
What a load of Mitt! What a load of Cruzhit!!!
Hahaha poor Cruz.
Meanwhile the ice in the antarctic is melting because it is -47 today...
The people are catching onto the scam faster than expected.
They are saying there is now a desert across the northern Africa too!
Wow!
Whose economy did it this time!?!?
Yeah it’s called El Nino you idiots. Has nothing at all to do with CO2. Temperature past couple months globally has been dropping like a rock.
Yeah, it gets hot sometimes. ...reminds of one of the 13 weeks I was dogged at Ft. Leonard Wood (about a week of temps around 108 F) and many other times in the field. ...and long days in the hayfields of my youth...and...
“It just goes to show you, it’s always something” (Roseanne Rosannadanna: Gilder Radner on Saturday Night Live).
You peons need to obey your betters or you will die!!
Yep!
See this story proves the accuracy of those thermometers and record keepers from so many thousands of years ago!
Murmansk could use the bar traffic.
Unexpected!
Yah, but we all must ask, why is it so warm in the dog days of July...?
They have diddled with the temps and used so much hyperbole that fewer rational people bother to read their scaremongering.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.