Global heat, sea level hit record highs
 

MIAMI: Global heat, greenhouse gases and sea levels all climbed to record highs last year, making 2015 the worst in modern times across a range of key environmental indicators, international scientists said on Tuesday.

A dire picture of the Earth’s health is painted in the State of the Climate report, a peer-reviewed 300-page tome that comes out once a year and is compiled by 450 scientists from around the world.

The record heat that the planet experienced last year was driven partially by global warming, and was exacerbated by the ocean heating trend k**wn as El Ni**, it said.

El Ni**, which just ended in July, was one of the strongest the Earth has seen "since at least 1950," said the report, led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (**AA) National Centers for Environmental Information. Thomas Karl, director of the **AA division, described the report as an "annual physical" of the Earth’s health.

"Clearly, the report in 2015 shows **t only that the temperature of the planet is increasing, but all the related symptoms that you might expect to see with a rising temperature are also occurring," he told reporters on a conference call.

"El Ni** certainly gave it a boost, so to speak, from the standpoint of global temperatures."

Adding to the health metaphor, the report also featured a haiku by co-author Gregory Johnson, an ocea**grapher with **AA, who wrote: "El Ni** waxes, warm waters shoal, flow eastward, Earth’s fever rises."

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/World...~4/E0Aa7sgOgSc

أكثر...