• Began with the warmest winter on record globally.
• Hottest year on record globally.
• Toronto had the hottest Christmas Eve on record for a Canadian city, with the thermometer reaching 15.4 degrees C.
• 2015 was last year we’ll see atmospheric CO2 concentrations below 400 parts per million, above which the global climate starts getting wacky.
• The average global temperature increase averaged 1 degree C above pre-industrial times for the first time.
• Tropical cyclone Patricia went off the hurricane category scale with winds of over 320 km per hour.
• The Arabian peninsula was hit by two consecutive cyclones, unprecedented in the region.
• After four years of drought California was the driest it has been in 500 years.
• Jurisdictions such as B.C. and Alberta had their worst-ever wildfire seasons.
• Record flooding hit northern England, winter tornadoes hit Texas and record heat crippled southern Australia.
• Year ended with the North Pole being warmer than Toronto, Chicago, Boston, and even some parts of California.
• And, we got a binding global climate agreement in Paris…. Yay!

SOURCE: CLEAN | BREAK – Read entire story here.