2020 one of the three warmest years on record, decade to be hottest

Greenland lost 152 billion tons of ice this year, a slower rate than 2019

Global temperatures from January to October were around 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, putting 2020 on track to being one of the three warmest years on record.

This decade will be the hottest on record, with the warmest six years all happening since 2015, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s annual State of the Global Climate 2020 report published Wednesday. 

“To put it simply, the state of the climate is broken,” United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said after the report was released. “Humanity is waging war on nature and this is suicidal —nature always strikes