WASHINGTON — The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record, two U.S. agencies reported Wednesday. The decade had eight of the 10 hottest years on record. “It’s sobering to think that we might be breaking global temperature records in quick succession,” said Georgia Tech climate scientist Kim Cobb. “We have strong human-induced global warming,” said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at the University of Oxford. Globally the past five years stand out as the hottest five on record, nearly 1.7 degrees (0.9 C) warmer than the 20th century average.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 15, 2020 18:33 UTC