ALJAZEERA: This year is on track to be the hottest on record, the UN’s weather agency has reported, and leading scientists say humans are likely to be responsible.
After a year of heat waves from Australia to Argentina, provisional data from the UN’s World Meteorological Organization show that if temperatures stay high for the rest of the year, 2014 will probably be the warmest year on record. This would mean 14 of the 15 warmest years will have been since the turn of the century…
“We would not be breaking these records without human influence on the climate,” said Peter Stott, the UK Met Office’s head of climate attribution, an emerging field of research enabling the rapid detection of a link between weather extremes and climate change…(more)
