According to the European Union's Climate Change Monitoring Service, the month of March was the hottest on record. Each of the last ten months saw an increase in temperatures, compared to previous years.
From April last year to March this year, the global temperature was 1.58 degrees Celsius above the 1850-1900 average, and according to Samantha Burgjess, deputy director of the EU's Climate Change Monitoring Service, this trend is very worrying:
"It is a long-term trend with extraordinary records that is worrying us a lot. Seeing such records month after month, we notice that our climate is really changing rapidly".
Climate change has been observed on every continent, starting with the melting of ice in the Arctic, the drying of tropical forests in the Amazon and South Africa, and the warming of the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean, as a result of the El Ninõ phenomenon.
