With its latest   spillage of official human body , NASA has confirmedwhat many have come to bear : April was the hottest April on phonograph record . This unsettling word , while not particularly surprising   as it comes at the end of a long drawing string of consecutively record - breaking months , shows   the warming of the planet has require a striking turn . The news program also makesanother temperature recordan almost certainty , as it now seems that 2016 will surpass 2015 as the hot twelvemonth since record began in 1880 .

The surge temperatures are becomingmoreandmoreofa regularity , with data from NASA showing that April was the 7th calendar month in a run-in to smash the monthly temperature record . Not only that , but the   figure also show that it comes in as the third month in a row to bust the record by the high perimeter , being 1.11 ° nose candy ( 1.99 ° F ) fond than the 1951 - 1980 average they apply to value it against .

NASA April temperature is out . Warmest April on disc . Beats the previous record by largest margin ever.#climatepic.twitter.com/7BissESrWJ

— Stefan Rahmstorf ( @rahmstorf)May 15 , 2016

The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration ( NOAA )   is still to announce their finding , but if they decrease in line with NASA ’s , which they almost sure will , then they will have April down as the twelfth   month to get out temperature record , making itan intact yearof soar temperatures . This is slightly different to NASA ’s record book , as they practice different baseline to equate with , but the trend is on the nose the same . And that course is only countersink to go up and up .

With this news show , it makes it a 99 per centum sure thing that 2016 will be the hot year since record began , according to Gavin Schmidt , the Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies . Considering that itwasn’t until October last yearthat scientist could tell that 2015 would be the hottest twelvemonth ever enter , the fact that this is obvious just four month into 2016 is quite worrying .   The speed at which the planet has started warm within the last year is of grave concern , as last year world leader signed the Paris agreement , which sets out to trammel world-wide warming to within 2 ° 100 ( 3.6 ° fluorine ) , and endeavour to keep it to below 1.5 ° vitamin C ( 2.7 ° farad ) .

With Apr update , 2016 still > 99 % likely to be a new record ( assuming historical ytd / ann patterns valid).pic.twitter.com / GTN9sPL2D7

— Gavin Schmidt ( @ClimateOfGavin)May 14 , 2016

This latter aim is looking harder and harder to attain , as the current prediction is that 2016 will be between 1.2 ° C ( 2.16 ° F ) and 1.4 ° C ( 2.52 ° F ) warmer than pre - industrial times , even if things start to cool during the rest of the year .

Part of the monolithic increases in planetary temperatures attend over the last year can be attributed to the particularly strong El Niño live in the Pacific during the end of 2015 and the start of 2016 . The warming of the water give a hike to the heat wave , but it can not explain all of the increases in temperature observed . Some argue that even without El Niño , the global temperature would have been increasing at a record pace anyway , and it seems like it will continue to do so for the rest of the year .