{"id":5798,"date":"2017-09-05T16:11:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T20:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5798"},"modified":"2017-09-05T16:11:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T20:11:46","slug":"2016-yet-another-exceptionally-warm-year-experts-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/2016-yet-another-exceptionally-warm-year-experts-confirm\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 yet another exceptionally warm year, experts confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global temperatures in 2016 have reached a peak high of 0.8 degrees Celsius above their level in the period between 1961 and 1990. This is the second year in a row to produce record global temperatures &#8211; although there isn&#8217;t a significant increase from 2015, according to the study authors. Warmer global temperatures in 2016 were the result of the climate change-induced long-term temperature rise, combined with a temporary boost from a major El Ni\u00f1o event. Exceptionally warm temperatures were also observed in the Arctic in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Kennedy, Robert Dunn, Mark McCarthy, Holly Titchner, Colin Morice<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lead author:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Kennedy, Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Science<\/span>\u00a0and Services, Exeter, UK, Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:john.kennedy@metoffice.gov.uk\" target=\"_blank\">john.kennedy@metoffice.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/wea.3042\/abstract;jsessionid=312FCD0F60439FE28CC09B801EB7C717.f04t04\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in <em>Weather<\/em> on August 8, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global temperatures in 2016 have reached a peak high of 0.8 degrees Celsius above their level in the period between 1961 and 1990. This is the second year in a row to produce record global temperatures &#8211; although there isn&#8217;t a significant increase from 2015, according to the study authors. Warmer global temperatures in 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31,3107,2809,176],"class_list":["post-5798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-climate-change","tag-el-nino","tag-global-warming","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1vw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5799,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions\/5799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}