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019 was the hottest year on record for as global warming trends continue, major analysis has shown.The report released on Wednesday by the 's Copernicus Service (C3S) reveals that 11 of the 12 warmest years on record for the continent have occurred since 2000.It also shows a clear warming trend for Europe stretching back over four decades.Last year, the UK witnessed at Cambridge Royal Botanical Gardens on July 26. The country with a observation post in north Scotland recording 16.8C at 3am on December 28 - well above the average nighttime temperature of zero degrees for that area in late December.Average global temperatures for the past five years are 1.1C above pre-industrial levels, the EU report shows.However, Europe is actually outstripping that, averaging almost 2C warmer than the levels in the benchmark period of the latter 19th century.The global Paris Agreement on tackling climate change commits countries to hold temperature rises to "well below" 2C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to curb warming to 1.5C.In 2019, there were weather extremes including periods of exceptional heat in February, June and July, leading to record-breaking high temperatures, the report shows.The UK was among the countries which saw heatwaves in those months, including a new record temperature for the country of 38.7C set in Cambridge in late July.And one of the wettest Novembers on record brought up to four times the normal amount of rain in Western and Southern Europe.Commenting on the report, Professor Hannah Cloke, a natural hazards researcher at Reading University, said that even with the variations in weather in recent decades, there was an ongoing trend of warming and record-breaking weather extremes.And she warned: "In lockdown, sitting on our sofas or our makeshift desks or in many more difficult situations, it would be easy for us to take our eyes off this alarming reality; that 2019 was the warmest year on record for Europe, that November brought us massively more precipitation than normal."And for every decade I have been on this planet it has been getting hotter and hotter and hotter."Prof Rowan Sutton, from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) at the University of Reading, said Europe has been warming significantly faster than the global average."This is for two reasons: First, land regions in general are warming faster than the oceans, largely because the greater availability of moisture over the oceans damps the rate of warming."Secondly, reductions in specific forms of air pollution, 'anthropogenic aerosols', have contributed to the recent warming in Europe, particularly in summer."C3S is implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the European Commission.Sign up for exclusive newsletters, comment on stories, enter competitions and attend events.ALREADY HAVE AN ACCOUNT? NEED AN ACCOUNT?

019 was the hottest year on record for as global warming trends continue, major analysis has shown.The report released on Wednesday by the 's Copernicus Service (C3S) reveals that 11 of the 12 warmest years on record for the continent have occurred since 2000.It also shows a clear warming trend for Europe stretching back over four decades.Last year, the UK witnessed at Cambridge Royal Botanical Gardens on July 26. The country with a observation post in north Scotland recording 16.8C at 3am on December 28 - well above the average nighttime temperature of zero degrees for that area in late...

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