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01.21.2016
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The year 2015 was by far the hottest on the planet since they began temperature records in the late 19th century, clearly surpassing the 2014 record, announced on Wednesday (20) the space agency NASA and the National Agency Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) of the United States.
A month after the climate summit in Paris where leaders from around the world committed to fighting global warming, scientists were adamant to announce the sad news. For the full year 2015, the average temperature of the Earth and oceans was 0.90 ° C above the 20th century average, the highest on record since 1880.
The previous record set in 2014 was exceeded by 0.16 ° C. December was also the hottest month ever recorded in 136 years. In the United States, December 2015 had an average temperature of 38.6 degrees Fahrenheit (3.67 ° C), six degrees above the 20th century average, NOAA said.
Over the 12 months of 2015 ten hit individual temperature records. This is the largest margin for an annual record compared to the previous benchmark.
Record fourth - is also the fourth time that a global temperature record is broken since the beginning of this century. Since 1997, the first year since 1880 to have a record rise in thermometers on the planet, 16 of the 18 years that followed were warmer, says NOAA.
Heat records were observed almost everywhere in the world, including Central America, the northern half of South America, in parts of the north, south and east of the European continent and West Asia, as well as significant portions of Siberia.
The thermometers also reached unprecedented levels in large areas of eastern and southern Africa, in the northeast and in the equatorial region of the Pacific, where the phenomenon El Niño in the northwestern Atlantic and across the Indian Ocean and parts of the Arctic Ocean takes place .
In 2015, the average temperature at the Earth's surface was 1.33 ° C above the 20th century average, the highest in the entire period from 1880 to 2015, surpassing the previous record set in 2007 of 0.25 ° C.
The global average surface temperature of the seas and oceans was 0.74 ° C above the average of the last century, beating the record set in 2014 of 0.11 ° C. (Source: G1)
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Source: Environment Brazil
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