Climate: November 2020 was the hottest on record

November 2020 is the hottest month on record in human history (illustrative image).

AP - J. David Ake

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Months go by and look the same and temperature records are broken one after the other.

November is no exception to the rule, it is even worse being the hottest month on record.

The year 2020 as a whole could well also take part in this sad record.

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The last record was in November 2019, so November 2020 was even hotter: +0.13 degrees exactly on the whole planet.

This is almost a degree higher than the historical average.

This upward trend is particularly marked in Siberia, Northern Europe, the Americas and Australia where summer has only just started and temperatures of 48 degrees have already been recorded.

As always, the poles are also paying a heavy price.

Western Antarctica was also hot.

In the north, the Arctic sea ice experienced its second lowest level.

The goals of the Pars agreement are moving away

The year 2020 is thus set to become the hottest on record.

If the trend continues in December, it could indeed steal

 with one difference: four years ago the El Nino phenomenon raged, which is heating up the global climate, which is not the case this year. 

Each month that passes takes us away from the first objective set by

which is to limit this warming to 1.5 degrees compared to the pre-industrial era.

In total, over the past twelve months, we are already at 1.28. 

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