The Bureau of Meteorology have confirmed that last year was the hottest nationwide in Australia in more than a century of recorded temperatures...
All states and territories recorded above average temperatures in 2013. Average temperatures were 1.20 degrees Celsius above the long-term average of 21.8C, the bureau said in its Annual Climate Statement.
This video from the Bureau of Meteorology outlines some key points of Australia's climate in the past year...
Extremes were not just experienced in Australia however, it was a year of wild weather events all over the world from the intense bushfires and floods in Australia, to the coldest spring in 50 years in the UK, massive tornadoes in the US, to the tragic typhoon that claimed 6000 lives in the Philippines - 2013 was a year of extreme weather phenomena.
Globally, 2013 was the sixth hottest year in records dating back to 1880 and did you know that 9 out of 10 of the warmest years from these records have occurred in the past 12 years.
The Fifth IPCC Assessment or AR5, which was released on September 27th 2013 expressed how the impacts of global warming are taking shape in the form of melting ice, rising sea levels and extreme weather activities , and there is a strong degree of certainty that human activities are what is responsible for global warming over the past half-century.
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