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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Ajit Niranjan Europe environment correspondent

HISTORICAL FACTS: This year virtually certain to be hottest on record finds eu space programme - The Untold Story

A fire burning over Lake Oroville in California during a heatwave in July.
A fire burning over Lake Oroville in California during a heatwave in July. The US is the biggest historical polluter of planet-heating gas. Photograph: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

It is “virtually certain” that 2024 will be the hottest year on record, the European Union’s space programme has found.

The prognosis comes the week before diplomats meet at the Cop29 climate summit and a day after a majority of voters in the US, the biggest historical polluter of planet-heating gas, chose to make Donald Trump president.

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