In Area News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

the average global temperature in the past 12 months was 14.98 degrees. that beats the previous hottest year set in 2016 by 0.17 degrees. the announcement was made by the eu s climate change service copernicus. and the met office in the uk believes this record could be short lived, as their forecasts suggest 2024 could be even hotter. earlier, i spoke to our climate editor, justin rowlatt, and asked about how much bigger the margin is in this latest report. yeah, it is interesting, isn t it? the margin, as you say, was 0.17 celsius. you might say, well, that doesn t sound very much to me, but remember, this is a global average, an average across the entire globe day and night across the entire year, and normally sign to say they expect it to be broken by a tiny fraction of a degree, 0.01, 0.02, not 0.17 degrees. that is, they say, a huge margin. when you dig into the figures, it s easy to see why so big. from july through to december, every single month was the hottest month ....

Gaza Israel , Post Office Managers , Donald Trump , Antony Blinken , Prime Minister , Matthew Amroliwala , Tumbling Like Dominoes , 14 98 , 0 17 , Met Office , Justin Rowlatt , The Uk , Climate Change Service Copernicus , Isn T , Globe Day , Doesn T Sound , 0 02 , 0 01 , Sea Temperature , Sea Surface Temperature , El Nino , Temperature Records , Southern Europe , Vegetation Parched , Greenhouse Gas Emissions , Record Temperatures ,