{"id":743771,"date":"2022-01-10T23:14:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/2021-was-fifth-hottest-year-on-record-eu-report-says\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T23:14:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:14:49","slug":"2021-was-fifth-hottest-year-on-record-eu-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/2021-was-fifth-hottest-year-on-record-eu-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 was fifth-hottest year on record, EU report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jan. 10 (UPI) —<\/span> The European Union’s climate agency said Monday that 2021 was the fifth-hottest year on record and that the past seven years together have been the warmest ever.<\/p>\n

The Copernicus Climate Change Service, an arm of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, said 2021 was slightly warmer than 2015 and 2018 with its average temperature 0.3 degrees Celsius above the temperature of the 1991-2020 reference point and 1.1-1.2 C above the pre-industrial level of 1850\u00ad-1900.\n<\/p>\n

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“Only with determined efforts backed up by observational evidence can we make a real difference in our fight against climate catastrophe,” said Vincent-Henri Peuch, director of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, according to Politico.<\/p>\n

Europe’s temperature was 0.1 degrees Celsius over the 1991-2020 average last year but was still its highest temperature on record.<\/p>\n

“July saw a very heavy rainfall event in western-central Europe, leading to severe floods in several countries, while the Mediterranean region experienced a heatwave during July and part of August,” the report said.<\/p>\n

Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands suffered severe flooding events while high temperatures affected Greece, Spain and Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jan. 10 (UPI) — The European Union’s climate agency said Monday that 2021 was the fifth-hottest year on record and that the past seven years together have been the warmest ever. The Copernicus Climate Change Service, an arm of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, said 2021 was slightly warmer than 2015 and 2018 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}