Keep it in the ground: 2016 likely to be hottest year on record

The world’s temperature is running at 1.2C above pre-industrial levels after another year of record-breaking heat affecting people around the worldLatest figures from the UN’s World Meterological Organization (WMO) released on Monday showed that 2016 would very likely become the hottest year on record. This is a new high for the third year running, and means that 16 of the 17 hottest years on record have been this century.This year saw searing heatwaves from South Africa to India, Ar