The U.N. weather agency says 2016 is set to break the record for the hottest year since measurements began in the 19th century.
The World Meteorological Organization said Monday that preliminary data through October shows global average temperatures this year are 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
That’s getting close to the limit set by the global climate agreement adopted in Paris last year. It calls for limiting the temperature rise since the industrial revolution to 2 degrees C or even 1.5 degrees C.
This year’s temperatures were boosted by the El Nino weather event.
The previous hottest year was 2015. WMO said 16 of the 17 hottest years have occurred this century, with the only exception being 1998, which was also an El Nino year.
(AP)
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1. The records don’t go back very far (roughly to 1800).
2. Based on accounts of which crops could grow where, it was warmer during the time of the Rishonim and during the time of the Bayis Sheini.
3. Warm is good. Cold kills plants and people. Note how many people flee the north every winter to go south, but how few flee the south every summer to go north.