WMO: 2019 rounds off a bleak decade for the climate

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2019 on course to be the second or third warmest year on record, World Meteorological Organization reveals

2019 will conclude a decade of exceptional global heating, retreating ice and record sea levels driven by greenhouse gases from human activities, the WMO said today. Average temperatures for both the...

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