This year will likely be the warmest ever recorded, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said in a statement Thursday.

In its announcement, Copernicus noted that last month was itself the second-warmest October ever recorded, behind only 2023's.

It was also the 15th of the last 16 months in which global average surface air temperatures exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average, the warming ceiling agreed upon in the Paris Climate Agreement. In the........

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