2020 warmest year on record, Hotter years to come with heat waves, droughts and more extreme wildfires: NASA
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The US space agency has revealed that the Covid-hit 2020 was also the warmest year on record, just barely exceeding the record set in 2016 by less than a tenth of a degree. By most accounts, 2020 has been a rough year for the planet. Massive wildfires scorched Australia, Siberia, and the US west coast -- and many of the fires were still burning during the busiest Atlantic hurricane season on record.
