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IT WAS RECENTLY reported that 2015 was the warmest year on record . Furthermore , a new global temperature forecast from the UK ' s Met Office says that 2016 is likely to be even warmer than 2015 .
This forecast underlines a longterm trend , where 15 of the 16 hottest years since records began in 1880 have all been this century .
The record temperatures set in 2015 are due to a combination of human-induced warming , as well as the presence of El Niño ( the prolonged warming of the Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures
that affects the climate all over the world ). El Niño has been explained as the cause of many extreme weather events around the world recently , such as droughts in parts of Africa , in India and Pakistan and flooding in many parts of Europe and the US .
While many of these global events are associated with El Niño , there is little doubt that the ongoing pattern of a warmer climate sees a greater risk of extreme weather conditions . Higher temperatures have given rise to weather phenomena such as hurricanes , cyclones , tornadoes , typhoons and floods .
28 October 2016