'Climate breakdown has begun,' U.N. chief says, adding: 'The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting.'
The WMO report, which includes the Copernicus data as well information from five other monitoring organizations around the world, showed it was the hottest August on record"by a large margin," according to the U.N. agency, both on land and in the global monthly average for sea surface temperatures.
The WMO cited the U.K.'s government's Met Office weather agency, which has warned there is"a 98% likelihood that at least one of the next five years will be the warmest on record."
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