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2016 'very likely' hottest year on record: UN

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The year 2016 will "very likely" be the hottest on record, the UN said today.

Temperatures for the year were set to reach about 1.2 Celsius over pre-Industrial Revolution levels - meaning that 16 of the 17 hottest years on record were this century, said the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

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First Published: Nov 14 2016 | 4:57 PM IST

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