BRUSSELS/LONDON - 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 in 2020, while the Arctic suffered extreme heat and atmospheric concentrations of planet-warming carbon dioxide continued to rise.
In 2020, temperatures globally were an average of 1.25 degrees C higher than in pre-industrial times, Copernicus said. The last six years were the world’s hottest on record. Last year also saw the highest temperature ever reliably recorded, when in August a California heatwave pushed the temperature at Death Valley in the Mojave Desert up to 54.4C .
Arctic sea ice continued to deplete, with July and October both setting records for the lowest sea ice extent in that month.
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