{"id":7381,"date":"2020-01-10T08:36:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T05:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7381"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","slug":"2019-second-hottest-year-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/10\/2019-second-hottest-year-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Second Hottest Year On Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The year 2019 was the second hottest ever recorded and a virtual tie with 2016, the warmest El Nino year, the European Union&#8217;s climate monitor says in its round-up of the hottest decade in history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Data released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) showed that worldwide temperatures were just 0.04 degrees Celsius lower than 2016 when temperatures were boosted 0.12 degrees Celsius by a once-in-a-century El Nino natural weather event. The five last years have been the hottest on record, and the period of 2010-2019 was the hottest decade since records began, C3S said. Globally temperatures in 2019 were 0.6 Celsius warmer than the 1981-2010 average. Earth&#8217;s temperature over the last five years was 1.1C-1.2C warmer than pre-industrial times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year was Europe&#8217;s hottest ever.&#8221;2019 has been another exceptionally warm year, in fact, the second warmest globally in our dataset, with many of the individual months breaking records,&#8221; said Carlo Buontempo, head of C3S.The year was just 0.04C cooler than 2016, which saw temperatures boosted by a once-in-a-century strength El Nino. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/health\/article\/2001355756\/2019-second-hottest-year-on-record\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AFP The year 2019 was the second hottest ever recorded and a virtual tie with 2016, the warmest El Nino year, the European Union&#8217;s climate monitor says in its&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}