warmest year

2014 on course to be warmest year on record

Early figures from the Met Office show 2014 is on course to be one of, if not the warmest, year on record both globally and for the UK.

Recent Met Office research also suggests breaking the existing global and UK temperature records is much more likely due to human influence on the climate.

The global mean temperature for January to October based on the HadCRUT4 dataset (...