‘Climate change state in 2015 surpassed 2014 as the warmest year’

A new report released by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) said last year’s record heat resulted from the combined influence of long-term global warming and one of the strongest El Niño events the globe has experienced since at least 1950. Most indicators, according to the report,showed that climate change continued to reflect trends consistent with […]

A new report released by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) said last year’s record heat resulted from the combined influence of long-term global warming and one of the strongest El Niño events the globe has experienced since at least 1950.
Most indicators, according to the report,showed that climate change continued to reflect trends consistent with a warming planet. “Several markers such as land and ocean temperatures, sea levels and greenhouse gases broke records set just one year prior,” it also said.
The report, led by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, is based on contributions from more than 450 scientists from 62 countries and reflects tens of thousands of measurements from multiple independent datasets.
It provides a detailed update on global climate indicators, notable weather events and other data collected by environmental monitoring stations and instruments located on land, water, ice and in space.
The report highlights issues that greenhouse gases were highest on record, noting that the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, for the first time, surpassed 400 parts per million in modern record.
Methane and nitrous oxide, additional heat-trapping gases released into the atmosphere through human activity, also set record highs.