Warmest decade for centuries

THE past decade was the hottest since the Industrial Revolution, a report has warned. Temperatures from 2010-2019 were 0.2C warmer than the previous decade and last year was one of the three hottest since records began in 1850.

The study also revealed that each decade since 1980 has been successively warmer than the one before. The findings were announced in the State of the Climate report, published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.