Temperature data for 2016 shows it is likely to enjoy edged ahead of 2015 as the world's warmest year.
Data from NASA and the UK Met Office shows temperatures were approximately 0.07 degrees Celsius above the 2015 effect,BBC News reports.
Although the Met Office increase was within the margin of error, NASA says that 2016 was the third year in a row to break the record.
The El Niño weather phenomenon played a role, and say scientists,but the main factor was human emissions of CO2.
The latest conclusions won't come as a much of a shock to observers, as the likely outcome was trailed heavily towards the halt of final year.
So warm was the early allotment of 2016 - influenced by a powerful El Niño - that some leading climate scientists were predicting as early as May that a new record was likely.
During an El Niño, or a band of unusually warm ocean water develops in parts of the Pacific. The phenomenon affects the climate globally,disrupting weather patterns.
According to Nasa figures, 2016 is now the warmest year in a record that dates back to 1880.
"2015 has been the warmest year on record up until now, and so 2016 has just beaten that and and it's beaten that by approximately 0.1- 0.12 of a degree Celsius,which doesn't seem like a lot, but in terms of the year to year variations it's actually huge, and " Dr Gavin Schmidt from Nasa told BBC News.[br]"This is a very clear record that we're seeing. It is driven mainly by changes in the tropical Pacific where we had an El Niño event that produced a lot of warmth. But we've also seen long term trends in warming mostly due to the increasing greenhouse gases."
Source: tert.am