Month of May was world’s second-warmest on record: EU scientists | Climate Crisis News

The biggest temperature increases were recorded in the Middle East, West Asia, northeast Russia, and north Canada.

This year, the world experienced its second-warmest month of May since records began, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has said in a monthly bulletin.

Global surface temperatures last month averaged 1.4 degrees Celsius (2.5 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial…