« April 2016 was the hottest April on record globally – and the seventh month in a row to have broken global temperature records."
The latest figures smashed the previous record for April by the largest margin ever recorded.
It makes three months in a row that the monthly record has been broken by the largest margin ever, and seven months in a row that are at least 1C above the 1951-80 mean for that month. When the string of record-smashing months started in February, scientists began talking about a “climate emergency”. »
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/16/april-third-month-in-row-to-break-global-temperature-records