The global temperature last month was warmer than every previous January on record, just edging out the previous record from January 2016, the Copernicus Climate Change Service reported.
And in Europe, it was the warmest January ever recorded at 0.2ºC warmer than the previous record in 2007, the European Union's system for monitoring the Earth said.The rise is even more striking through the lens of history -- compared to the average January temperature in the pre-industrial years before the 20th century, it was about 1.4 degrees Celsius warmer.
Temperatures from east of Greenland to the northwest of Svalbard were warmer, and had below-average sea-ice cover. Global temperatures from 2019Globally, last year was 0.59°C warmer than the 1981-2010 average. That's the second warmest year on record. The warmest 12-month period remains October 2015 to September 2016, where it was 0.66°C above 1981-2010.Those averages are pushing global temperatures close to red lines set by both climate scientists and world leaders.
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