From Slate:
Earth Just Finished Its Warmest Quarter Year Ever
"Taken as a whole, the just-finished three-month period was about 0.68 degrees Celsius (1.22 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th-century average. That may not sound like much, but the added warmth has been enough to provide a nudge to a litany of weather and climate events worldwide."
The main reason is this, the most reason global sea surface temperature anomaly map from NOAA (July 17). See all that orange and yellow in the Pacific? Yeah, it's warm. Anomalously warm. Those conditions might give rise to a true El Niño, but that's not sure yet (though the probabilities are still positive).
What is sure is that the warmth is sufficient to be raising global temperatures -- obviously, based on the title and subject of the article -- and it isn't likely to go away anytime soon. Which means we'll likely see a few more warm months and probably a warm year. How warm? That can't be foreseen yet.
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