２０１９年は観測史上２番目に暑い年、ＥＵ機関

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】欧州連合（EU）のコペルニクス気候変動サービス（C3S）は、2019年が観測史上2番目に暑い年で、2010～19年も観測史上最も暑い10年間だったと発表した。（写真は資料写真）
　Ｃ３Ｓが公表したデータによると、２０１９年の世界の平均気温は、１００年に１度の規模のエルニーニョ現象によって気温が０．１２度押し上げられ、観測史上最も暑い年となった２０１６年の記録に０．０４度差まで肉薄した。
　さらに、２０１５～１９年も観測史上最も暑い５年間、２０１０～１９年も観測史上最も暑い１０年間となった。
　２０１９年の世界の気温は、１９８１～２０１０年の平均を０．６度、産業革命以前の水準を１．１～１．２度上回った。
　欧州だけでみても、２０１９年は観測史上最も暑い年だった。
　Ｃ３Ｓによると、２０１９年は大気中の炭素濃度が増加を続け、観測史上最高を記録。二酸化炭素（ＣＯ２）濃度は現在、少なくともこの８０万年間で最高となっている。
　昨年、温暖化の進行が最も顕著だったのは、米アラスカ州をはじめとする北極圏、東欧と南欧の広範囲、アフリカ南部とオーストラリアだった。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/01/10-08:24）

2019 was the second hottest year on record and ended the hottest decade in history, the European Union's climate monitoring service said Wednesday.
Data released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) showed that worldwide temperatures last year were second only to 2016, in which temperatures were boosted 0.12 degrees Celsius by an exceptionally strong El Nino natural weather event.
The average temperature in 2019 was only a few hundredths of a degree below the 2016 level.
The five last years have been the hottest on record, and the period of 2010-2019 was the hottest decade since records began, C3S said.
Globally temperatures in 2019 were 0.6 Celsius warmer than the 1981-2010 average. Earth's temperature over the last five years was 1.1C-1.2C warmer than pre-industrial times.
Last year was Europe's hottest ever.
2019 has been another exceptionally warm year, in fact the second warmest globally in our dataset, with many of the individual months breaking records, said Carlo Buontempo, head of C3S.
2019 was just 0.04C cooler than 2016, which saw temperatures boosted by a once-in-a-century strength El Nino.
- 'Alarming signs' -
C3S also said that atmospheric carbon concentrations continued to rise in 2019, reaching their highest levels on record.
The United Nations said last year that manmade greenhouse gas emissions needed to tumble 7.6 percent each year to 2030 in order to limit temperature rises to 1.5C.
Current pledges by countries to cut their emissions put Earth on a path of several degrees warming by the end of the century.
The first week of 2020 has seen climate-related disasters such as the fires ravaging southeastern Australia and flooding kill dozens of people in Indonesia.
Scientists say such catastrophes will become more frequent and more intense as temperatures climb.
The past five years have been the warmest on record; the last decade has been the warmest on record, said Copernicus director Jean-Noel Thepaut.
These are unquestionably alarming signs.
Last year saw the most pronounced warming in Alaska and other parts of the Arctic, as well as large swathes of eastern and southern Europe, southern Africa, and Australia.
In Europe all seasons were warmer than average, with several countries registering both summer and winter temperature highs. December 2019 was 3.2C warmer than the 1981-2010 reference period, C3S said.