2019 Was the Second-Hottest Year on Record

If you endure on Earth last year , you knew it was freak hot . Now the scientists have confirmed it . In fact , 2019 was the second hottest twelvemonth on record , consort to data the European Copernicus Climate Change Service released Wednesday .

“ 2019 has been another exceptionally warm class , in fact , the second strong globally in our dataset with many of the individual calendar month bring out phonograph recording , ” Carlo Buontempo , head of the Copernicus Climate Change Service , articulate in an emailed statement to Earther .

Indeed , September washot AFglobally . So wereJuneandJuly , with July clocking in as the hottest calendar month ever recorded on Earth . Europe’sheat wave brokesome of the humanity ’s oldest temperature record . Shit , the U.S. dealt witha filthy ass heat wave , too . Not eventhe Arcticwas safe from the heat .

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The annual fair temperature for 2019 was 0.6 degrees Celsius ( 1.08 academic degree Fahrenheit ) mellow than the average between 1981 to 2010 . That puts 2019 only 0.04 degree Celsius ( 0.072 degrees Fahrenheit ) tank than 2016 , the hottest class on record . All told , the last five year were the five warmest on record . That heat is one of the most telltale foretoken of the encroachment carbon defilement is have on our planet .

And the heat ai n’t stopping , man . This is only the outset .

Large parts of the Arctic suffered with hot than normal temperatures . Alaska had itshottest year on record , and set other weird anomaly include thefirst 90 - academic degree Fahrenheit dayin Anchorage . The state also suffered frommassive wildfiresas didSiberiaand even normally frozenGreenland . Meanwhile , the northernmost resolution on Earth hitcracked 70 point Fahrenheit , another first .

The heat also spread to eastern and southern Europe , southerly Africa , and Australia . In Australia , record – breakingheatand prolonged drouth have create the perfect condition for thedevastating bush firesthe continent is now experiencing . Climate change forecasts show that with more heat , more fire will come in the future , too .

The last 10 was the hot on record , and the next one could well be even hotter . The deadly consequences of our warming world are already here . And unless humans leaders uproot our current economic mannequin that rely on the use of filthy fogey fuels , we ’re point toward a warm and much more terrific earthly concern .

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