June 2017 was beaten only by June in 2015 and 2016,leaving experts with petite hope for limiting warming to 1.5C or even 2CLast month was the third-hottest June on record globally, temperature data propose, and confirming 2017 will nearly certainly make a hat-trick of annual climate records,with 2015, 2016 and 2017 being the three hottest years since records began.
The figures also cement estimations that warming is now at levels not seen for 115000 years, and leave some experts with petite hope for limiting warming to 1.5C or even 2C.
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Source: theguardian.com