Don't expect the warm feelings the industry is soaking up this week to last too long.
"We expect the warming to continue its northward movement in the Indian Ocean, and the long-range outlook is calling for bleaching in the Caribbean this summer," he adds.
Their data indicates that temperatures in 2016 will be similar to this year, and that they expect the warming trend to continue in years ahead.
Or did you do that thing where you do the countdown, looking up at the clock, full of joy, then looked around – head suddenly spinning, zooming thrillingly out – expecting the warm embraces of your friends and instead seeing them, all, coupled together and kissing?
"We expect the peak warming from El Niño in the 2016 figures," said Scaife.
In the paper, we showed that we expect the Earth to warm by about 4°C more (7°F) over the present temperature by the year 2100.
I expect the rate of warming to proceed at a steady pace, about one and a half degrees over land in the next 50 years, less if the oceans are included.
Due to climate change, scientists expect the Mediterranean to warm in the coming decades, making it even more hospitable for species originally from the Red Sea and the adjacent Indian Ocean.
"I certainly didn't expect the kind of close, warm relationships I developed at Hampton University, but I was not prepared for the antagonism".
The opportunities for preparation are one reason why economists expect the damage from global warming to be different, and perhaps less, than from natural disasters that hit by surprise.
