April seventh month in a row to break global temperature record

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April seventh month in a row to break global temperature record

Global temperatures continue to smash records with April the seventh month in a row to break records stretching back to the 1950s.

According to figures from Nasa last month smashed the previous record for April by the largest margin ever.

That makes it three months in a row that the monthly record was broken by the largest margin ever.

The new record for April trounced the previous one, set in 2010, by 0.24C.

“The very unfortunate circumstance we have now is the overlap of a very intense El Nino that has been magnified by climate change,” said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

“All of these record breaking temperatures and attendant implications that we have had, such as record breaking fires for example, and droughts in India are all reminders that we cannot afford to do anything except to accelerate the solution agenda – we absolutely have no other option but to accelerate.”

 

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