Earth Sweltered Again in 2017: Hottest Year without an El Nino

Polar bear and yearlings on an ice floe, Nunavut, Canada. © Lee Narraway / Students on Ice (WWF-Canada)
“When even the ‘colder’ years are rewriting the warmest year record books, we know we have a problem”
* Last year was hottest without an El Niño in Pacific* Rising heat confirms long-term warming trend – WMO
By Alister Doyle Environment CorrespondentOSLO (Reuters) – Last year was the second or third warmest on record behind 2016, and the hottest