FOR the second year in a row, Earth will almost certainly be the hottest it’s been in human history, the European climate agency Copernicus said today.

The agency also said that for the first time, the globe this year reached more than 1.5°C of warming compared to the pre-industrial average.

Director of Copernicus Carlo Buontempo said: “It’s this relentless nature of the warming that I think is worrying.”