WASHINGTON - On Wednesday, the World Meteorological Organization, has announced that the Earth's wild weather this year is smashing the annual heat record, and this is all because of man-made global warming and a strong El Nino phenomenon that most countries are already experiencing.
According to The United Nations weather agency's early bird report, this year's heat record has already surpassed last year's record making it the hottest year to date. The agency didn't have to wait for the year to end anymore since it has been evident that it was extremely hot. Weather forecasts says that it is likely to stay this way and impossible to cool down enough to not set a record.
As the agency's secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, releases his statement, he claimed that this concern is indeed a bad news for the entire planet.
Scientists at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and elsewhere have already predicted that 2015 is likely to be the year that would be the hottest year, which urged them to say that the results aren't surprising them anymore. According to NOAA, the U.N's agency, NASA and Japan's weather agency, 2014 hold the current record being the hottest year with a global temperature of 14.57 degrees Celsius, 58.23 degrees F, but apparently, 2015 has already topped the list.
On Tuesday, Deke Arndt, NOAA's chief climate monitor, said that in order for it not to be a record, something that's massively changing the game should have happen first.
As reported by CBS News, in his released statements, Jarraud said that by now, the world has already warmed by 1 degree Celsius, or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, over the pre-industrial times. He claims that this is a memorable landmark of pre-industrial times as World leaders have set a goal of keeping global warming within 2 degrees C, 3.6 F.
Furthermore, as Scientists explains it, the reason why the world is getting warmer and warmer by the minute is because of the heat-trapping gases that has originated from the burning of coal, oil and gas. Apart from those factors, what makes the world even warmer is the fact that El Nino becomes a naturally occurring event that starts with warm water in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific.
Some implications of the said occurrence was taken from the heat waves in Pakistan and India, where high temperatures broke 45 degrees Celsius, or 113 degrees F, the record strong Hurricane Patricia in Mexico, which brought heavy rains and flooding in the southern parts of United States, Bolivia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and droughts in the western United States, central Europe, Russia and Southeast Asia.