14 DAY TRIAL // Specialists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States claim that this year's April was one of the hottest to have until now been documented on a global scale.
In fact, it appears that, all things considered, this year's April ties with 2010's for the warmest on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration adds.
According to Mongabay, temperatures documented last month exceeded the global average for the 20th century by about 0.77 degrees Celsius (1.39 degrees Fahrenheit).
This happened despite the fact that parts of Canada, the United States Midwest, and certain regions in Central Asia all experienced below average temperatures, the same source tells us.
Then again, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, northern Africa and even eastern Siberia all had above-average temperatures to deal with, so things more than evened out in the end.
Courtesy of this increase in global average temperatures documented in April, 2014 managed to become the sixth hottest year on record, at least when temperatures during the first four months alone are taken into consideration.
Together with other researchers, specialists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say that this increase in global average temperatures is due to greenhouse emissions resulting either from fossil fuels or from deforestation.