Earth’s 10 hottest years have been the last 10

Pedestrians take a break as they cross the Brooklyn Bridge during a heat wave in New York on June 21, 2024. — Graham Dickie/The New York Times

WITH the addition of 2024, yet another record-hot year, the past 10 years have been the 10 hottest in nearly 200 years of record- keeping, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) reports.

“That’s never happened before,” said Chris Hewitt, climate services division director. It marks the first time since record keeping began that all of the 10 hottest years have fallen within the most recent decade.