Fresh climate data confirms 2015 is unlike any other year

Over the past few days a bevy of climate data has come together to tell a familiar yet shocking story: Humans have profoundly altered the planet's life-support system, with 2015 increasingly likely to be an exclamation point on recent trends. On Monday scientists at Britain's national weather service, the Met Office, said our planet will finish this year more than 1C warmer than pre-industrial levels for the first time.