Earth Was the Hottest Ever in June

Date

July 22, 2015

News Type

Media Highlight

Clayton Munnings, a research associate at think tank Resources for the Future, said that climate negotiators will view recent high temperatures as a symptom of the climate change issue. "I think the negotiators are likely to see the increase in temperature as a symptom of the disease that they're all collectively trying to cure, which is excess global warming and climate change. It might personally motivate some negotiators, it might compel some advocacy groups to put more pressure on negotiators," he told China Daily.

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