Confirmation that 2019 concludes warmest decade
The annual global temperature figures for 2019 confirm that the past decade was the warmest on record.
The data also show that the past five years were the warmest in the 170-year series. The balance of evidence using multiple data sets suggests that 2019, a year without a strong classical El Niño, is the second warmest year for annual global temperatures in records that begin in 1850. Only 2016 has