Despite being just over half means through the year , our planet   is already on lead to have its   hot twelvemonth on record . Even though such a scenario has been predicted by a whole plethora of climate researchers , the case that ’s been unfold month by calendar month has still aim scientists by surprise , the conductor of the World Climate Research Programsaid .

Last workweek both NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed thatJune 2016 was the warm since disc beganin the 1880s . It is now   14 months in a course of record - breaking temperature , which is in itself the longest streak since records pop out . Yet it is not just the fact that so many successive calendar month have been the warm , it is also   that those in 2016 have been the hottest by the expectant tolerance . It is this quite terrifying incline up that has been so unsettling .

“ What relate me most is that we did n’t anticipate these temperature jump , ” David Carlson , director of the World Meteorological Organization ’s ( WMO ) climate research program , told theThomson Reuters Foundation . “ We bode moderate warmth for 2016 , but nothing like the temperature rises we ’ve see . Massive temperature raise , but also utmost events like implosion therapy , have become the new normal . ”

This come just as the WMO set in motion   an investigation to study whether or not the sweltering 54 ° C ( 129.2 ° farad ) in Kuwait this weekbreaks the recordfor the highest atmosphere temperature ever commemorate in the Eastern Hemisphere , possibly make it the second - highest ever recorded on the major planet . Even then , the number one spot as recorded in 1913 in Death Valley , California , is disputed , intend that 2016 could terminate up lay the record for the hot temperature ever recorded on Earth .

With that in mind , the mercury in the Northern Hemisphere has   equally been climbing steadily higher , with the Arctic warmingtwice as fastas anywhere else on the planet . “ The ice melting rates recorded in the first one-half of 2016 , for instance – we do n’t unremarkably see those until subsequently in the yr , ” says Carlson . That , coupled with the“new highs ” in atmospherical carbon dioxide – which is the very gas that traps the estrus in the first place   – and it is not expect like the world is go to cool down anytime soon .

It is no longer a question of “ has the climate changed ? ” but “ by how much ? ” says Carlson .