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This year has been one of the hottest on record, the World Meteorological Organisation has said.The UN body says the planet has seen a decade of "exceptional" heat - and since 2015, each year has broken records for being the warmest.Data from January to October reveals temperatures have been 1.1C above pre-industrial levels, putting 2019 on course to be the second or third-hottest year ever.A study on the state of the global climate has also warned that sea levels are rising ever faster, ice is melting and that "once in a century" heatwaves and floods are now becoming more regular occurrences.Extreme events, such as cyclones, hurricanes and flooding, have forced millions of people from their homes.There have been droughts in many parts of the world and there have also been two major heatwaves in Europe in late June and July - with a new temperature record of 38.7C set in the UK.More follows
