CNN —Climate change combined with this year’s El Niño set a new world record for worldwide heat on Tuesday – 62.92 degrees Fahrenheit or 17.18 degrees Celsius.
The WMO declared the onset of an El Niño Tuesday and warned governments to prepare for more extreme weather events as a result.
This will be the first El Niño in seven years.
The last very strong El Niño year – 2016 – also saw the previous record for worldwide heat that August.
“It is El Niño on top of decades of human emissions of greenhouse gases.”There is no turning back, he said, but humans can likely slow the change.
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