"... Global temperatures leapt in February, lifting warming from pre-industrial levels to beyond 1.5 degrees, and stoking concerns about a "climate emergency".
Unusual warmth in waters off northern Australia also prompted an alert by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Authority about the risk of widespread coral bleaching.
The jump in temperatures last month was unprecedented in more than a century of records. According to NASA analysis, average temperatures last month were 1.35 degrees above the norm for the 1951-1980 period.
They smashed the previous biggest departure from the average - set only in the previous month - by 0.21 degrees. ..."
