April record temperature. And ‘the seventh month in a row: 2016 will be the warmest year – The Republic

Rome – THE planet thermometer always marks redder. What ended was the warmest April ever (since 1880, or since you have the availability of data), and now there is no doubt: 2016 will be the warmest year, removing the primacy previous year . The data collected by NASA for this month – it is the seventh consecutive in which the temperature of the earth’s surface has passed more than a degree the average – indicate that 2016 will be the warmest year of all and most likely with large margin. The global temperature stood at 1.11 degrees above average. In addition to January (1.11 degrees), February (1.33) and March (1.29) past, happened in October (+1.07 degrees) November (+1.01) and December (+1.10) 2015. To Gavin Schmidt NASA, who commented on the new data via Twitter, “with the April update is more than 99% chance that 2016 is a new year

the April record beats the previous 0.24 degrees Celsius in 2010 and is higher by 0.87 compared to the April average. If these temperatures are partly caused by the El Nino phenomenon – explains the Guardian – scientists point out that the determining factor is the globlale warming due to the greenhouse effect.

“Climatologists launch at least by warnings eighties. And it’s all now totally discounted from 2000 onwards. So why be surprised? “said polemical Andy Pitman , director of the Arc Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Australia’s University of New South Wales. Pitman according to the latest figures bring into serious doubt the objective set by Cop21 in Paris: “The goal of 1.5 degrees is just wishful thinking. I do not even know if we will reach 1.5 degrees if you bloccassero today all emissions. there is a strong inertia in the system. “

And rising temperatures continues to have consequences even in agriculture. Even in our country. “On the stalls of the markets in Italy have already arrived apricots, melons and cherries Made in Italy driven by a record heat in the world who has scored the highest temperatures ever for seven consecutive months,” says Coldiretti in underlining that anomalies have also occurred in Italy “where April was ranked third in the hottest since 1800 with a temperature of 2.8 degrees above average well according Isac CNR. an overheating trend confirmed in Italy also in the past winter – emphasizes the association of farmers – was the third warmest since records began with temperatures exceeding by as much as 1.76 degrees compared to the average of the reference period. an unusual warmth that devastated crops with the exceptional arrival of production out of season. a worry farmers, however, are violent and sudden storms that have also been reported with hail hit patchy crops, from fruits to vegetables, from corn to alfalfa. The Italian agriculture over the past decade – concluded Coldiretti – has been damaged for 14 billion euro due to the vagaries of the weather.

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