Man-made global warming is set to produce exceptionally high average temperatures this year and next, boosted by natural weather phenomena such as El Niño, Britain's top climate and weather body said in a report on Monday. "It looks very likely that globally 2014, 2015, and 2016 will all be among the very warmest years ever recorded," Rowan Sutton of the National Center for Atmospheric Science told journalists. "This is not a fluke," he said. " We are seeing the effects of energy steadily accumulating in the Earth's oceans and atmosphere, caused by greenhouse gas emissions."

Global warming to pick up in 2015, 2016, say experts. (2015, September 15). Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. A18.