A study in the journal Nature Communications shows that the World is likely to see more extreme temperatures in the next four years, as natural warming reinforces climate change. It is unlikely we will see much respite until at least 2022 scientists have said.
Rising greenhouse gas emissions have contributed to the increasing temperature, however, humans haven't felt it as bad as a straight trending line upwards, thanks to slight fluctuations in the temperature on top of the heat, natural temperature rises and drops. Between 1998 and 2010, the global temperatures were on a "hiatus" as the oceans and weather systems had a cooling effect which counteracted the heating - now that has passed, heating has increased due to extra man-made effects.
"Everything seems to be adding up," said the author of the paper, Florian Sévellec of the French National Centre for Scientific Research. "There is a high possibility that we will be at the peak of a warm phase for the next couple of years."
This means we will have to rely less on fortuitously cool weather thanks to the effects of climate change and greenhouse gas effects, if there will be no emission reductions, and get ready for some serious heating up, as "years like 2018 will be the norm in the 2040s, and would be classed as cold by the end of the century," writes prof. James Renwick of Victoria University of Wellington on this subject.
