2019 was the second hottest year on record and ended the hottest decade in history, the European Union’s climate monitoring service said Wednesday. The average temperature in 2019 was only a few hundredths of a degree below the 2016 level. The five last years have been the hottest on record, and the period of 2010-2019 was the hottest decade since records began, C3S said. – ‘Alarming signs’ –C3S also said that atmospheric carbon concentrations continued to rise in 2019, reaching their highest levels on record. “The past five years have been the warmest on record; the last decade has been the warmest on record,” said Copernicus director Jean-Noel Thepaut.

Source: Egypt Independent January 08, 2020 11:26 UTC