2017 Was The Hottest Year On Record That Too Without El Ni?o, All Thanks To Humans

The pollution from which we cover our faces, the gases released by the cars we drive, the microwave we use, and the air-condition we survive on daily basis and the debris we stuff inside the Earth just we can't stand what we have wasted is casting a dent in the environment and it's pernicious.

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Let's take a minute to congratulate each other for 2017 is the hottest year recorded - a peak in global temperature without El Ni?o and one of the top three ever recorded.

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It is now the hottest year since the global warming records began. Even without El Ni?o, the year showed pretty exasperating climate change in global temperatures, a stagnant 1C above level seen in pre-industrial times.

The 2016 peak in global temperature caused by El Ni?o is over. That peak was similar to the 1998 peak, but at a 0.4 ¡ãC higher global temperature due to #GlobalWarming pic.twitter.com/F7aBZt2k2J

¡ª Stefan Rahmstorf (@rahmstorf) January 18, 2018

According to scientists, it is the humanity¡¯s fossil fuel-burning that's responsible for this change. The data recorded by them proves that 17 of the 18 hottest years recorded since 1850 have occurred since 2000. Last year saw some extreme weather transformations and extremes: while one region in the world was laden with snow, another suffered extreme hot waves. Hurricanes in the US and Caribbean to heatwaves in Australia and devastating floods in Asia - everything validates for how badly we are treating the world we live in.

Scientists say temperatures in 2017 showed a clear signal of man-made global warming because it was the hottest year they've seen without an El Ni?o boosting temperatures naturally https://t.co/RcjmWxRBe4 pic.twitter.com/DEUH8xs72Z

¡ª CBS News (@CBSNews) January 18, 2018

Many of these events are an outcome of heat created by global warming. The limit of 1.5C of warming, set as a goal by the international Paris climate change treaty touched its tipping point quickly. The reports also suggested that the average temperature in 2017 was 0.99C above that seen from 1850-1900.

2017 was Earth's second hottest year since global estimates became feasible in 1880. The year continued a decades-long warming trend ¨C 17 of the 18 warmest years have now occurred since 2001. pic.twitter.com/PrEyOINNVs

¡ª NASA GISS (@NASAGISS) January 18, 2018

¡°While climate change deniers continue to bury their heads in the sand, global warming continues unabated,¡± said Prof Michael Mann, at Pennsylvania State University in the US. reports The Guardian.

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¡°And the impacts of that warming ¨C unprecedented wildfires, superstorms and floods ¨C are now plain for all to see. There has never been greater urgency.¡±

Scientists are now worried about the huge level of carbon emission, ensuring the earth overshoot day to approach earlier, by every year. ¡°Global temperatures will continue to bob up and down from year to year, but the climate tide beneath them is rising fast,¡± said Prof David Reay, at the University of Edinburgh in the UK. ¡°Despite our best efforts so far, global warming continues apace,¡± said Prof Martin Siegert, at Imperial College London. ¡°This is yet another wake-up call to develop a zero carbon economy before it¡¯s too late.¡±

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