World News: Global temperatures reached record highs in 2020 gdnonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gdnonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will this year reach levels 50 percent higher than before the industrial revolution because of manmade emissions, Britain's Met Office predicted on Friday.
2020 ties 2016 as hottest year on record
By AFP January 9, 2021 | 02:35 pm GMT+7
A woman walks on a parched field in Ben Tre Province in Vietnam s Mekong Delta, then hit by historic drought and saltwater intrusion, March 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Huu Khoa.
2020 has tied 2016 as the hottest year on record, the European Union s climate monitoring service said Friday.
The statement means Earth is on a global warming fast track that could devastate large swathes of humanity.
The six years since 2015 are the six warmest ever registered, as are 20 of the last 21, evidence of a persistent and deepening trend, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported.
Year 2020 Competes with 2016 as Warmest on Record parisguardian.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from parisguardian.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.