Top Story www.washingtonpost.com 2020 rivals hottest year on record, pushing Earth closer to a critical climate threshold Escalating temperatures poise the planet to breach 1.5 C for the first time, possibly later this decade.
Newsletter www.nytimes.com 2019 was the second hottest year on record 2019 was a very hot year, with global average temperatures the second highest on record,by less than one-tenth of a degree Fahrenheit behind 2016.
