The acting director of the UK Met Office, Prof Peter Stott, told BBC News: "It shows clearly that the biggest natural influence on the climate is being dwarfed by human activities – predominantly CO₂ emissions."
The World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said, “Arctic warmth has been especially pronounced and this will have profound and long-lasting repercussions on sea levels, and on weather patterns in other parts of the world.”
Commenting on the figures, Bob Ward, from the Grantham Institute at the London School of Economics, pointed out that “The record temperature should focus the minds of world leaders, including President Trump, on the scale and urgency of the risks that people, rich and poor, face around the world from climate change."
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