United States - The World Meteorological Organization warned on Friday that 2016 is on track to become the warmest year on record, with extremely high temperatures. "We witnessed a prolonged period of extraordinary heat, and everything indicates that this will become the new standard", he stated the secretary general of the organization, Petteri Taalas.
Taalas pointed were observed high levels of carbon dioxide concentration and temperature records broken. This situation and the warming of the oceans accelerated bleaching of coral reefs, recalled. "The exceptionally long period of global warming continued in August, which was the hottest on record in both the land surface and the oceans," added the spokeswoman Claire Nullis, based on data from NASA and the European Centre for Forecasting weather Medium Term.
Moreover, according to the latest data, the ice surface in the Arctic reached its minimum extent during the summer (boreal) last September 10, which was the second lowest in 37 years, when records began satellite.
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