Record temperatures last year indicate that climate change is unstoppable according to US government climate scientists . Global sea-level also reached a record high, with the expansion of those warming waters, keeping pace with the 3.2 ± 0.4 mm per year trend in sea level growth over the past two decades, the report said. The scientists say that record temperatures from last year kept at pace with the 1 & plusmn ; 1 mm per year growth over the past two decades . Greg Johnson , oceanographer at Noaa 's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory said , " Even if we were to keep 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 scientists say that record temperatures from last year kept at pace with the 1 & plusmn ; 1 mm per year growth over the past two decades . Greg Johnson , oceanographer at Noaa 's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory said , " Even if we were to keep 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 . "