2017 Ranks Among 3 Warmest Years on Record

Alex Kirby, Ecowatch, November 6, 2017

For all of us, as 2017 proves to be one of the three warmest years on record, climate change presents a greater risk of sickness or death than it did four decades ago, the United Nations says. And for some of the world’s poorest people, the consequences of unpredictable weather caused by changing climate mean devastating disruption to their daily lives.

The news comes from the World Meteorological Organization, the UN system’s leading agency on weather, climate and water, which has published its 2017 report on the state of the global climate. Much of it makes somber reading.

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