The UN tell us that we must strive to limit annual global temperatures to 15.23 Celsius, which is calculated by adding 1.5 C  to the pre-industrial temperature of 13.73 C. But according to temperatures in the NASA graph the limit was exceeded in 1981, 1988 and 1990 ahead of 1987, 1983 and 1980 all within .06 C.

The first UNFCC document to mention a limit to global warming of 1.5 C was the Cancun Agreement, adopted at the sixteenth COP (COP 16) in 2010. The agreement was to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 C above pre-industrial levels. The agreement recognised  he need to consider reinforcing the long term global goal on the basis of the best available knowledge to a global average temperature rise of 1.5 C which has been adopted. If you are concerned about the planet and want know the temperature being used as the pre-industrial period to calculate the global temperature we must avoid, the WMO has confirmed it was 13.76 C (57.76 F) on page 4 of its 2015 climate report.

According to the 2015 WMO report the global temperature was 14.76 C, 0.76 C above the 1961-1990 average of 14 C and one degree Celsius above the pre-industrial temperature era which equates to 13.76 C,  add 1.5 C and the temperature where we might lose control would be 15.26 C (59.57 F) a temperature already exceeded in the 1980’s according to the temperature graphs published by NASA, British Met Office and CRU East Anglia.

NASA, British Meteorology Office and CRU East Anglia show global temperatures relative to the 1950-1980 average of 59 F.. But NASA in recent years have changed this baseline temperature from 15 C (59 F) to 14 C (57 F) which is equal  for NASA’s drop in Global temperature in 1998.

All the above graphs/records, previously published by NASA, CRU East Anglia, British Meteorology Office with temperatures records dating back 100 years were suddenly made redundant.

“According to the new figures, published by WMO the average global temperature this year will turn out to be about 58 degrees, a full degree warmer than the 1961-1990 average of 57  (14 C)”This number’s amazing,” said Dr. Philip D. Jones, a climatologist at the University of East Anglia in England, speaking of a field in which records are normally set in fractions. Dr. Jones provided much of the information on which yesterday’s announcement was based”.

Among other contributors to the United Nations agency’s report (WMO) were the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the British Meteorological Office, the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville (NOAA), N.C., the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and University of Alabama in Huntsville, Ala., the International Research Institute in New York and the Climatic Prediction Center in Washington.