2015 is the hottest year on record

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Because of man-made global warming and a strong El Nino, Earth's wild weather this year is smashing the annual heat record, the World Meteorological Organization announced.

The United Nations weather agency's early bird report on 2015 says it is the hottest year on record, surpassing last year's record heat. It made the proclamation without waiting for the end of the year because it has been so extraordinarily hot, forecast to stay that way and unlikely to cool down enough to not set a record.

The report comes the week before world leaders assemble in Paris to try to negotiate an agreement to fight climate change.

Scientists at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and elsewhere already were saying that 2015 likely would be the hottest.

The U.N. agency, NOAA, NASA and Japan's weather agency all say 2014 is the current record hot year with a global temperature of 58.23 degrees F.

"I would call it certain," NOAA's chief climate monitor, Deke Arndt, said.

It is likely that the world has now warmed by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit over pre-industrial times. That's a milestone: International leaders have set a goal of keeping global warming within 3.6 F of pre-industrial times.

The world is warming because of heat-trapping gases that come from the burning of coal, oil and gas.

On top of that, El Nino, a naturally occurring climate event that starts with warm water in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, makes the world even warmer.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/un-weather-agency-reports-2015-is-hottest-year-on-record/

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