Record temperatures last year indicate that climate change is unstoppable according to US government climate scientists. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Friday it had recorded the highest global temperature ever measured in 2016 at 0.85°C above average – a record for any calendar year. Four independent data sets confirmed 2014 as the hottest year on record, with much of that heat driven by the warming of the oceans. Greg Johnson, oceanographer at Noaa's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory said, "Even if we were to freeze greenhouse gases at current levels, the sea would actually continue to warm for centuries and millennia, and as they continue to warm and expand the sea levels will continue to rise."
Record temperatures last year indicate that climate change is unstoppable according to US government climate scientists. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Friday it had recorded the highest global temperature ever measured in 2016 at 0.85°C above average – a record for any calendar year. Greg Johnson, oceanographer at Noaa's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory said, "Even if we were to freeze greenhouse gases at current levels, the sea would actually continue to warm for centuries and millennia, and as they continue to warm and expand the sea levels will continue to rise."