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| Sat, 25th Apr 2020 16:07:00 |
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Climate Change Made 2019 The Warmest Year On Record |
The annual temperature in 2019 was the highest on record for Europe, the new European State of the Climate 2019 shows. The continent is heating at a faster rate than the global average.
The data, compiled by Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) as well as other Copernicus services and external partners, focuses on some gauges of long-term regional and global climate change including surface temperature, sea level and ice sheets.
A clear warming trend emerged over the last four decades and 11 of the 12 warmest years have occurred since 2000.
The annual mean temperature shows that 2019 was over 1.2 2 degrees Celsius above average, followed by 2014, 2015 and 2018.
"The number of record-breaking years keeps growing," the director of C3S Carlo Buontempo tells Forbes.com. "This is not a statistical variation because it would be a very rare one, on the contrary it is compatible with our observation of global warming."
But the European temperature is almost 2 degrees Celsius above the 1850-1900 level, while globally it is about 1.1 degree Celsius above.
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