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2020 likely world’s second hottest year, U.N. says
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This year is on track to be the second hottest on record, behind 2016, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday, said Reuters.
Five data sets currently place 2020, a year characterised by heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and raging hurricanes, as the second warmest since records began in 1850.