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Temperature results from 2015

24/1/2016

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Now that 2015 is complete and the records of the climate are being made available, it gives us the opportunity to see where we are today and where we are heading. The above chart is from the Japan Meteorology Agency and shows how the surface temperature of the planet has taken a dramatic upward swing. 

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The second chart, from NASA, shows how the temperature has  varied around the world with much greater heat in the Arctic, Russia and Canada. The big worry is the cold patch in the North Atlantic, reportedly caused by Greenland melting. This is exactly what was forecast by Al Gore in 'An Inconvenient Truth' all those years ago and has been consistently ridiculed by deniers. The Gulf Stream is reported as slowing and weather patterns in the USA, the UK and Europe are far from normal.

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The final chart, by a team of climate researchers from Switzerland, Australia and the UK led by Seneviratne, shows how a 2C average temperature increase is cooler on the oceans and much warmer on the land masses, especially as you get closer to the Arctic. In the colour scale the sea is 2C, most land masses are 3C, Canada and Russia are 4C and the Arctic 6C.
​Those farmers in Texas who think that they are going to move to new lands in the North are going to be bitterly disappointed because the extreme temperature change will make farming impossible. There is not enough detail to show the drought around the Mediterranean which is already causing civil unrest in that region. 
​All in all its a very stark scenario of the worst outcome that has been predicted for years.

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