Arctic sizzled in 2020, the warmest year for Europe too

Paris (AFP) April 22, 2021

Europe endured record heat and rainfall last year while temperatures in Arctic Siberia soared off the charts, the European Union's climate monitoring service reported Thursday. The continent in 2020 was nearly half a degree Celsius hotter than the next warmest year, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). That means Europe was more than 2C warmer than in a world unalter