GENEVA, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- The year 2020 is on track to be one of the three warmest years on record, and 2011 to 2020 the warmest decade on record with the warmest six years all being since 2015, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday.
According to the provisional WMO report on the State of the Global Climate in 2020, ocean heat is at record levels and more than 80 percent of the global ocean experienced a marine heatwave at some time in 2020. The global mean temperature for January to October 2020 was around 1.2 degrees Celsius above the 1850-1900 baseline, making 2020 very likely one of the three warmest years on record globally.
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