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Globally 2020 was as warm as 2016, the warmest year till date, making 2020 the 6th in a series of exceptionally warm years starting in 2015. Follow the thread for insights from the #CopernicusClimate Change Service (#C3S) @CopernicusECMWF #ClimateChange

2020 was 0.6°C warmer than the standard 1981-2010 reference period & ~1.25°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, a press release from @CopernicusECMWF notes. 2011-2020 is the warmest decade recorded #ClimateChange

Europe saw its warmest year on record at 1.6°C above the 1981-2010 reference period & 0.4°C above 2019, the previous warmest year

CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have continued to rise at a rate of ~2.3 parts per million (ppm)/year in 2020 reaching a max of 413 ppm during May 2020, per the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service & #C3S, implemented on behalf of the European Commission
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India is the 5th most vulnerable of 181 countries to the effects of climate change, with its poorest being the most at risk, we reported in December 2019:
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“While carbon dioxide concentrations have risen slightly less in 2020 than in 2019, this is no cause for complacency,” said Vincent-Henri Peuch, director, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, in a press release

Parts of the Arctic & northern Siberia saw some of the largest annual temperature deviations from the average in 2020, with deviations as much as 3°C & over 6°C for the year as a whole, the press release says

Wildfires, poleward of the Arctic Circle, released a record 244 megatonnes of CO2 in 2020, over a third more than the 2019 record

Of the top 10 carbon polluters in the world, India & Canada are the only 2 nations making clear progress with measures to deal with climate change. But India’s efforts will still not be enough to limit global warming, we reported in Dec 2018:
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“Climate change will soon become very critical,” N.H. Ravindranath, a scientist at Centre for Sustainable Technologies @iiscbangalore, told us in June 2019. “We are not talking about the next 100 years but the next 15 to 20-year timescale.”
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Poor countries that are closer to the equator will see more deaths from rising temperatures compared to richer countries that may also be experiencing similar temperatures by the end of this century, we reported in Sept 2020:
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You can access the press release here: bit.ly/35j1Lkm