Climate Change: May 2020 hottest on record -- Report

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Climate Change: May 2020 hottest on record — Report

saying it shows that global warming remains unmitigated as 2020 is set to be among the 10 hottest years ever, CNBC reports., Freja Vamborg, a scientist at Copernicus Climate Change Service, an intergovernmental agency that supports European climate policy, “the last month has been the warmest May on record globally and this is unquestionably an alarming sign.

In the report released on Friday, Copernicus Climate Change Service disclosed that globally, May was 0.63 degrees Celsius warmer than the average May from 1981-2010, the warmest May in the data record. The last twelve-month period, from June 2019 to May 2020, was close to 0.7 degrees Celsius warmer than average, matching the warmest twelve-month period.

It said 2019 was the second-hottest year ever, capping off the world’s hottest decade in recorded history. And six of the warmest years on record were during the past decade.

 

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