PIK STATEMENT on the global temperature record 2015

01/20/2016 - NASA and NOAA announced their official analyses of the 2015 global temperature - it has been the warmest year on record.

On this issue, Wolfgang Lucht, co-chair of the research domain "Earth System Analysis" at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research:

"News on record breaking temperatures like the global record of 2015 show that continuous climate change has become reality by now. Of course there are always natural variabilities in the climate system, but the trend is clearly climbing. Therefore it was essential that the Paris Agreement took the science into account. Now it is important to act consequently. Germany could further pioneer to tackle the implementation more systematically, eventually attaining the end of the fossil era."


Weblink to the NOAA analysis: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/2015-annual-global-climate-report