2020 ties for hottest year ever
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Wildfires burning in the boreal forest in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia in Russia on August 1, 2019. Temperatures in the Arctic and Siberia reached new highs in 2020, according to a new report. Photo by Russian Federation Service Aviation Forest Protection/EPA-EFE
Jan. 8 (UPI) Temperatures in 2020 were 1.08 degrees hotter than the average from 1981 to 2010, tying for the hottest year on record, according to a new probe released by the European Union s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
The past six years were the hottest stretch of temperatures in history and 2.25 degrees above pre-industrial average levels, the report said. Temperatures this year tied 2016 as the hottest ever recorded.