The impact of climate change is obvious as what happens in the Arctic. According to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released on Tuesday,  the Arctic's temperature reached the warmest point this year.The NOAA report said that air temperature showed a 2 degrees increase compared to their 1981-to-2010 average from October 2015 to September of 2016, a time period marked by a powerful El Nino event.

Temperatures, the report, continued have increased more than expected in the region since the 1900s; 3.5 degrees. It means the region's temperature will likely continue to double in the near future. Jeremy Mathis, who lead NOAA's Arctic Research Program said the highest averagetemperature in the Arctic's surface was recorded from January to September this year his team has monitored since 1900. He added that the rise in temperature reaches a worrying point. The Arctic's temperature set the highest record in January, February, October, and November of 2016.

Previously in July 2016, NASA report also indicated that temperatures in each of the first six months of 2016 broke a record as the warmest respective month globally, dating to 1800, as presented by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. In addition, the six-month period from January to June set a record as the warmest half-year, scoring an average temperature 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the late nineteenth century. 

The temperature record was broken even in the wintertime. Mathis warned that the persistent heat is staying even during the cold winter.

The news about the Arctic rising temperature breaks out as president-elect Trump has selected Rex Tillerson, the head of oil giant ExxonMobil, as a secretary of state. Tillerson and Exxon had started a drilling program in the Arctic's Kara Sea, where Exxon made a find and had agreed to explore West Siberia's shale oil fields of West Siberia the Black Sea's deep waters," according to a report from Washington Post's Steven Mufson and two colleagues today. However, U.S sanction imposed on Russia halted the activity.

Tillerson has a good business relationship with Russia, despite the.U.S sanction following Russia's annexation of Crimea. Experts expected that Trump will be scrutinized by U.S lawmakers over Tillerson's appointment as his secretary of state.Ironically, as the drilling continues,

it will be harder for the planet to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. And the Arctic's temperature will keep rising.