The previous seven years have been the world’s hottest “by a clear margin,” according to the European Union’s climate monitoring service, which also sounded the alarm about dramatic rises in methane concentrations in the atmosphere.
In its latest annual assessment, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) showed 2021 had joined the unbroken warm streak since 2015.
Last year was the fifth warmest on record globally, warmer than 2015 and 2018.
A series of devastating climate disasters, from fires to hurricanes and volcanos marked last year, as scientists warn that action needs to be fast and committed.
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