World temperatures hit a record high for the third year in a row in 2016, creeping closer to a ceiling set for global warming with extremes including unprecedented heat in India and ice melt in the Arctic, U.S. government agencies said Wednesday. The data, supported by findings from other organizations, was issued two days before the inauguration of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, who questions whether climate change has a human cause. This man did just that during a week full of high 40 degree Celsius temperatures in Agartala, India. "Long-term indicators of human-caused climate change reached new heights in 2016," Petteri Taalaas, head of the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organisation said, referring to rising levels of carbon dioxide and methane. (Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images)At a meeting in Marrakech days after Trump's victory, almost 200 nations said it was an "urgent duty" to combat climate change.

Source: CBC News January 18, 2017 19:02 UTC