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muriel_volestrangler

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Fri Jun 5, 2020, 06:47 PM Jun 2020

Earth has hottest May on record, with 2020 on track to be one of the top 10 warmest years

The Earth had its hottest May ever last month, continuing an unrelenting climate change trend as 2020 is set to be among the hottest 10 years ever, scientists with the Copernicus Climate Change Service announced on Friday.

It’s virtually certain that this year will be among the top hottest years in recorded history with a higher than 98% likelihood it will rank in the top five, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

“The last month has been the warmest May on record globally and this is unquestionably an alarming sign,” said Freja Vamborg, a scientist at Copernicus Climate Change Service, an intergovernmental agency that supports European climate policy.

“Even more concerning is the fact that average temperatures of the last 12 months have become one of the hottest 12-month periods ever recorded in our data set,” she said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/05/climate-change-may-2020-is-hottest-month-on-record.html

May was 0.63°C warmer than the average May from 1981-2010, making it the warmest May in this data record

The most above-average temperatures were recorded over parts of Siberia - where they were up to 10°C above average, Alaska and Antarctica

The last twelve-month period (June 2019-May 2020) was close to 0.7°C warmer than average, matching the warmest twelve-month period (October 2015-September 2016)

https://climate.copernicus.eu/may-2020-globally-warmest-record-europe-below-average-temperatures
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