From EcoWatch:
It's not even halfway over yet, and 2020 already has a 75 percent chance of being the warmest year on record.
The forecast was shared by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists during a press call Thursday. But even if it isn't the hottest year, it has a 99.9 percent chance of being one of the top five.
"The year 2020 is almost certain to rank among the five warmest years on record," NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) said in its monthly global climate report, according to an E&E News story published by Scientific American.
If it does, the last seven years will be the seven warmest on record, Al Jazeera pointed out.
The prediction comes as NOAA announced that the period from January to March 2020 was the second-warmest in its 141 years of record keeping.
This is "unusual," NCEI's Deke Arndt told USA TODAY, because there is no El Niño this year. The cyclical climate phenomenon, which leads to warmer ocean water in the tropical Pacific Ocean, was present during the warmest year on record — 2016. February and March of this year were the warmest on record without an El Niño, and Arndt said the warming trend is primarily caused by the climate crisis driven by the burning of fossil fuels.
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| Source: NOAA |
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