"This is not about one year being record warm - it is about the warming trend due to greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. We look back on a terribly warm decade, with a terrible number of extreme events linked to that warming: droughts in the USA, wildfires in Australia, and the list goes on. The science is clear that we put our very life support systems at risk by heating our planet - never before in the history of human civilization have we had such warming. While annual temperatures can fluctuate, the dangerous warming trend will continue unless we rapidly reduce our CO2 emissions. We can do this, but we have to start doing it now."
Read the press release by the EU Copernicus Climate Change Service:
Copernicus: 2020 warmest year on record for Europe; globally
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