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United States government agencies on Wednesday said the decade ended 2019 was the hottest on record, and that the year gone by was the second hottest ever. The announcement about 2019 was the same as the one by the European weather agency’s Copernicus climate change programme earlier this month which confirmed the projection by the World Meteorological Organisation at the COP25 Madrid climate summit that 2019 was on course to end up as the second or third hottest year ever. On January 7, the IMD (India Meteorological Department) declared the 2010-19 decade to have been India’s hottest since records began in 1901, with the average temperature 0.36 degrees Celsius higher than the 30-year 1981-2010 average. 2019 was the country’s seventh hottest year on record.