New Delhi (NVI): The year 2019 was the second hottest year on record and the past decade was the warmest in history, European Union’s climate monitoring service said today.
Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the climate change service for EU, on Wednesday released data showing that worldwide temperatures last year were second only to 2016. The temperatures recorded last year were boosted by an exceptionally strong El Nino weather event, the report said.
“Globally, December was 0.7°C warmer than the 1981-2010 average, one of the two warmest in our record. In Europe it was the warmest December in our record, at 3.2°C above average,” EU’s Climate Change Service tweeted Wednesday.
The five warmest years in record have all occurred in the last five years and the period of 2010-2019 was the hottest decade since records began, C3S said.
The climate monitor also said that atmospheric carbon concentrations continued to rise in 2019.
India also witnessed the global rise in temperatures in the last year as well as the past decade. On Monday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) released a statement on the climate change in India in 2019. It said that despite recording the second coldest December in 118 years, 2019 was the seventh warmest year on record since 1901.
December was bitterly cold with the mean maximum temperature for the month being only 18.76 degrees Celsius, which made it the second coldest since 1901. The previous coldest December was recorded in 1997 when the mean maximum temperature was only 17.3 degrees Celsius.
