The melting of Antarctica was already really bad. It just got worse.:
A hundred years from now, humans may remember 2014 as the year that we first learned that we may have irreversibly destabilized the great ice sheet of West Antarctica, and thus set in motion more than 10 feet of sea level rise. Ref. Source 5
Climate change: 2015 will be the hottest year on record 'by a mile', experts say:
Climate scientists are predicting that 2015 will be the hottest year on record "By a mile", with the increase in worldwide average temperatures dramatically undermining the idea that global warming has stopped - as some climate-change sceptics claim. Ref. Source 2a
Rising temperatures could drive 100m into extreme poverty, World Bank warns:
As many as 100 million people could slide into extreme poverty because of rising temperatures, which are caused by greenhouse gas emissions, the World Bank report said. The bank's most recent estimate puts the number of people living in extreme poverty this year at 702 million, or 9.6% of the world's population.. Ref. Source 5m
October 2015 was the warmest October on record and the warmest month ever recorded relative to the month's average temperature, a new NOAA report says. It was the sixth straight month setting a global temperature record.
The temperatures got a boost this year from what may end up being the strongest El Nino ever recorded reaching its peak. El Nino, which is characterized by warming of ocean waters in the tropical Pacific Ocean, is helping to drive global temperatures upward this year, but El Nino cannot fully account for the warming. The overall trend continues to climb higher thanks largely to man-made climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. Ref. CNN