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. Read original full article
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