http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/04/15/3769847/hottest-3-month-record/
We Just Crushed The Global Record For Hottest Start Of Any Year
BY JOE ROMM APR 15, 2016 1:25 PM
CREDIT: NASA
NASA reports that this was the hottest three-month start (January to March) of any year on record. It beat the previous record — just set in 2015 — by a stunning 0.7°F (0.39°C). Normally, such multi-month records are measured in the hundredths of a degree
Last month was the hottest February on record by far. It followed the hottest January on record by far, which followed the hottest December by far, which followed the hottest November on record by far, which followed the hottest October on record by far. Some may detect a pattern here.
We reported two weeks ago that “Last Month Was The Hottest March In The Global Satellite Record.” It was also the hottest March on record — by far — in the dataset of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), as the World Meteorological Organization tweeted Thursday.
As has been the story all winter, the biggest and most worrisome warming is occurring in the Arctic. Indeed, as we reported on Wednesday, blistering temperatures over Greenland jump-started the summer melt season — with 12 percent of Greenland’s massive ice sheet melting by Monday, beating the previous record by a month.
Even though 2015 crushed the previous record for hottest year — which of course was just set in 2014 — it seems increasingly likely that 2016 will top 2015, even as the current El Niño fades.
El Niños generally lead to global temperature records, as the short-term El Niño warming adds to the underlying long-term global warming trend. But, as I reported last month, we are blowing out the temperature records set during the last big El Niños.
The bottom line is that we are being warmed globally at an alarming rate thanks to human-caused carbon pollution.
