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Global warming continues – 2014 was the hottest in the history of meteorological observations. Why did it happen and what disasters we now have to fear – in the material science department “Gazety.Ru”.

Last year was remembered not only such “hot events” as the appearance of ” Islamic state “, the return of the Crimea and landing at the comet Churyumov – Gerasimenko, but also a variety of natural phenomena, haunted the inhabitants of the planet. Some people do not like the drought came, someone could not go skiing because of the fact that in the mountains there was no snow and artificial fill them failed.

That’s specialists from NASA together with colleagues from NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – also obsessed with the study of the anomalous year in many respects. And with the advent of 2015, they decided to share the results carried out independently research with the general public.

Scientists publicly stated : 2014 was the the hottest on record, which has lasted for the 135th year. In many ways, this became clear in May last year.

Moreover, since 2000 the title of “the hottest of the year” intercepted as many as ten times in a row. It is possible that new surprises will present and barely had time to start 2015: abnormally hot temperatures can be a harbinger of the El Niño – climatic phenomenon, which, according to scientists , provokes war, disasters and epidemics.

Since 1880, the average temperature of the Earth has increased by 0,8 ° C. At first glance it quite a bit. Here are just existing projections suggest that warming 1,5 ° C will lead to a catastrophic cold winters in the US and Europe . Such negative patterns are manifested in a smaller scale now.

The researchers believe that the increase in temperature provoked by emissions of carbon dioxide and other substances into the atmosphere.

Their colleagues recently and all told, most mighty of the land has changed over the past 65 years. They even announced the launch of the Anthropocene – the epoch of the Quaternary period, the central factor of which is the people.

Do not lag behind their Western counterparts and Russian scientists.

According to representatives of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, last year was in the Northern Hemisphere the second warmest in the history of regular meteorological observations on the planet.

The anomaly of mean annual air temperature was + 0,75ºS that 0,02ºS less than in 2010, which is considered to be the hottest. In Europe in 2014 set a new absolute maximum mean annual air temperature.

But in Russia the average for the year the temperature up to 0,1ºS replay value 2013. Among the ten warmest years in the history of meteorological observations in our country, which have been conducted since 1891, nine belong to the XXI century. From the last century in this list only in 1995.

However, Smiles because of the heat is not so much. For example, last report National Committee for the assessment of climate change and the United States predicts catastrophic consequences caused by climate change will be. Moreover, recently, scientists failed to install , similar to that of modern global warming happened 55 million years ago and did not lead to anything good.

Poor because of the warming is not only the United States, but also to other countries. And it is an occasion to reflect on climate change now.