{"id":7074,"date":"2016-05-16T22:58:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7074"},"modified":"2016-05-16T22:58:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:58:14","slug":"nasa-april-breaks-global-temperature-record-marking-seven-months-of-new-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/05\/nasa-april-breaks-global-temperature-record-marking-seven-months-of-new-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA: April breaks global temperature record, marking seven months of new highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Guardian<\/em> reported on the most recent global climate report from NASA that globally, April set a new temperature record, making this the seventh month in a row to break the record. \u00a0With this string of warm months, 2016 is almost certain to set a new record for the warmest year ever. \u00a0Part of this is being fueled by the waning El Ni\u00f1o, which still brings a tremendous amount of heat to the Pacific Ocean, and part of it is the result of warming ocean and land temperatures due to the influence of increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. \u00a0You can read more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/may\/16\/april-third-month-in-row-to-break-global-temperature-records\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/may\/16\/april-third-month-in-row-to-break-global-temperature-records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3907\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Breydon_Water_Autumn_Sunset._-_geograph.org_.uk_-_467120.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3907\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Breydon_Water_Autumn_Sunset._-_geograph.org_.uk_-_467120-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Dave Bloom \/ Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Breydon_Water_Autumn_Sunset._-_geograph.org_.uk_-_467120-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Breydon_Water_Autumn_Sunset._-_geograph.org_.uk_-_467120-208x138.jpg 208w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Breydon_Water_Autumn_Sunset._-_geograph.org_.uk_-_467120.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Dave Bloom \/ Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian reported on the most recent global climate report from NASA that globally, April set a new temperature record, making this the seventh month in a row to break the record. \u00a0With this string of warm months, 2016 is almost certain to set a new record for the warmest year ever. \u00a0Part of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7075,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions\/7075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}