Scaife stresses it’s too soon to say for sure that the slowdown in surface warming is over, though.

The 20-page report from Britain’s Met Office – titled “Big changes underway in the climate system?” – highlights current transitions in major weather patterns that affect rainfall and temperatures at a regional level.

Temperatures are going to be pushed even higher over the next two years, according to the Met Office.

“That is the reason we’re stressing it on the grounds that we’re seeing such a variety of enormous changes on the double”.

“With the potential that next year could be similarly warm, it’s clear that our climate continues to change”, said Prof.

Now, according to the Met Office report, all the signs are that the pause in rising air temperatures is over and the rate of global warming will accelerate fast in coming years.

An El Nino climate event is under way that could potentially become one of the strongest events since 1950.

That will make 2015 and 2016 very warm, and possibly break temperature records, officials said.

However, the warming trend won’t be felt evenly across the globe and Northern Europe looks set for several years of cooler summers.

Prof Scaife said: “The warming has never stopped, it’s just where the heat is stored”.

This will change weather patterns around the world including more heatwaves, the report said.

“When the El Niño comes and raises the global temperature, that is the icing on the cake, that is the extra bit that creates a record”.

This United Nations climate pact focuses on stopping global temperatures to rise to more than 2 degrees Celsius after pre-industrial levels since scientists believe that this is crucial to prevent more natural disasters such as rising seas, floods, storms and droughts from happening due to the effects of climate change.

Experts predict that it could push the average global temperature to a third consecutive record in 2016.

The last El Niño of this magnitude was the one from 1998, which took the global temperatures to new heights at the turn of the century. Some take place without the influence of human beings while others are caused by human activities like greenhouse gas omissions are contributing to accumulate more heat on the earth’s atmosphere.