GENEVA, Switzerland — The last three years were the hottest on record, the United Nations weather agency says, citing fresh global data underscoring the dramatic warming of the planet.
Consolidated data from five leading international weather agencies shows that “2015, 2016 and 2017 have been confirmed as the three warmest years on record,” the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says.
It adds that 2016 remains the hottest year ever measured due to the warming effect of El Nino, while 2017 was the warmest non-El Nino year, beating out 2015 by less than one hundredth of a degree.
“The long-term temperature trend is far more important than the ranking of individual years, and that trend is an upward one,” WMO secretary-general Petteri Taalas says in a statement.
The 21st century has so far been a period of the hottest weather, accounting for 17 of the 18 warmest years on record.
A young boy dives into a water tank on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
— AFP
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