April breaks global temperature record, marking seven months of new highs

(The Guardian, 16 May 2016) Latest monthly figures add to string of recent temperature records and all but assure 2016 will be hottest year on record.

April 2016 was the hottest April on record globally – and the seventh month in a row to have broken global temperature records.

The latest figures smashed the previous record for April by the largest margin ever recorded.

It makes three months in a row that the monthly record has been broken by the largest margin ever, and seven months in a row that are at least 1C above the 1951-80 mean for that month. When the string of record-smashing months started in February , scientists began talking about a “climate emergency”.

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The Guardian, 16 May 2016: April breaks global temperature record, marking seven months of new highs