Delegates at the COP22 climate change conference in Morocco are hearing 2016’s global temperatures are about 1.2° Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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The  World Meteorological Organization says temperatures spiked in the early months of the year because of the powerful El Niño event of 2015-16.

Preliminary data for October indicates that they are at a sufficiently high level for 2016 to remain on track for the title of hottest year on record. This would mean that 16 of the 17 hottest years on record have been this century (1998 was the other one).

Long-term climate change indicators are also record breaking. Concentrations of major greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continue to increase to new records.

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