The average temperature of the planet between January and October 2019 was 1.1 °C above the pre-industrial period (1850-1900). As a result, the averages for 2015-2019 and 2010-2019 are on track to become, respectively, the warmest five-year period and the hottest decade on record. The information is contained in the Provisional Declaration of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
“If we do not take urgent climate action now, we are heading for a temperature rise of more than 3°C by the end of the century, with increasingly detrimental impacts on human well-being. We are nowhere near meeting the Paris Agreement target. In our daily lives, the impacts of climate change play out through extreme and abnormal weather,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.
