Levels of carbon dioxide- the major cause of climate change – also broke records between January and June 2016.

The temperature averages in the world have beaten another record in the first half of the year, which anticipates that 2016 may become the hottest year since measurements are made, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) listed.

In this period, the thaw in the Arctic has occurred earlier and more rapidly, an irrefutable indicator of the rate which precautions should be taking for an advancing climate change .

Tendency to climate change

WMO, which acts as a scientific arm of the United Nations and is the world authority on climate issues, revealed that levels of carbon dioxide- the major cause of climate change – also broke records between January and June 2016.

The average temperature of the first half of this year was 1.3 degrees Celsius above the average of the pre-industrial era, the late nineteenth century.

Last June witnessed the hottest fourteenth consecutive month both at the surface and the oceans and the thirty – eighth consecutive month in which the temperatures were above the average of the twentieth century.

The last time the temperatures in the world were below that average was in December 1984.

Extreme events

The consequence is that the world will face more waves of heat and very heavy rains, experts say .

While the concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere this year have surpassed the symbolic barrier of 400 parts per million and the trend is upward.

In the Arctic, the heat has led to annual contraction that occurs early.

Currently, the extent of Arctic Sea in midsummer covers 40 percent of what it used to be covered in the 1970s and early eighties.

WMO has also noted that the rains have varied significantly around the world.

While witnessing a very dry season in Spain, northern Colombia, northeastern Brazil, Chile, southern Argentina and in various parts of Russia, there have been more rain in northern Argentina, northern and central Europe, in Australia and in parts of Central Asia and south.