EU climate network confirms warmest May on record

Temperatures soared 10C above average last month in Siberia, home to much of the Earth's permafrost, as the world experienced its hottest May on record.

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, nearly 200 countries have pledged to cap the rise in average surface temperature to "well below" 2C, and to 1.5C if possible. These reached close to 10C above the 1981 to 2010 average over parts of the Ob and Yenisei rivers, where "record-early break-up of river ice has been reported".

The 12 months to May were 0.7C hotter than the 1981 to 2010 average, matching the warmest equivalent period on record, between October 2015 and September 2016. In the Arctic region average temperatures have risen by two degrees Celsius since the mid-19th century, almost twice the global average.

No .Nice try though.

Think there might have been a few hotter May's....

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