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This year is set to be the world's second or third-warmest on record, according to new data from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service.
This year will also likely round out the first three-year period in which the average global temperature exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale.
"These milestones are not abstract – they reflect the accelerating pace of climate change and the only way to mitigate future rising temperatures is to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions," Samantha Burgess, the strategic lead for climate at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, said in a statement.
The announcement comes after last month's United Nations climate conference failed to agree to substantial new measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet.
The emissions are largely produced by the fossil fuel industry, which accounts for around 68 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 90 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions, according to the United Nations.
Human activities are responsible for almost all of the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere over the last 150 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said.
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