Europe experienced second-warmest winter on record
Brussels, Belgium Reuters Europe is emerging from its second-warmest winter on record, European Union scientists said on Wednesday, as climate change continues to intensify. The average temperature in Europe from December to February was 1.4 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 average for the Boreal winter season, according to data published by the EU’s Copernicus Climate […]
EU scientists say 2021 was world’s fifth-hottest year on record
Brussels, BelgiumReuters Last year was the world’s fifth hottest on record, while levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere hit new highs in 2021, European Union scientists said. The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a report on Monday that the last seven years were the world’s warmest “by a clear margin” […]
2020 ties with 2016 as world’s hottest year on record, EU climate change service says
Brussels, Belgium/London, UKReuters Last year tied with 2016 as the world’s warmest year on record, rounding off the hottest decade globally as the impacts of climate change intensified, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Friday. After an exceptionally warm winter and autumn in Europe, the continent experienced its hottest year on record […]
September was world’s hottest on record, EU climate change service says
London, UKReuters Last month was the world’s hottest September on record, with unusually high temperatures recorded off Siberia, in the Middle East, and in parts of South America and Australia, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Wednesday. Extending a long-term warming trend caused by emissions of heat-trapping gases, high temperatures this year […]