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2020 rivals hottest year on record, pushing Earth closer to a critical climate threshold
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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.
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2019 was the second hottest year on record
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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. 
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