Under a medium global warming scenario, by the 2040s we predict the number of monthly
heat records globally to be more than 12 times as high as in a climate with no long - term warming.
Not exact matches
(Unlike
record cold,
record heat is on the rise nationally and
globally.)
Globally, El Niño tends to boost temperatures and likely contributed to 2014's
record heat.
We have however had
record ocean SST's and
heat content
globally.
But with fossil fuel burning continuing at near
record levels
globally, and with many corporations and political bodies around the world dragging feet on greenhouse gas emissions cuts, the level of
heat - trapping carbon held aloft in our airs will continue to rise for some time.
The fact that the oceans — and not the land — were so warm last year should deeply worry us... There's evidence the Earth's oceans are undergoing never - before - seen change... When you couple 2014's
record - setting oceans with our ever - increasing greenhouse gas emissions, it portends an ominous surge of
heat globally — on both land and in the oceans — for years to come.
As seen in Figure 4 - 3, the ocean warming occurred in the later years of the
record with little change in
globally averaged ocean
heat content prior to 1997.