<span style="color: #222222;">The United Nations has confirmed that the past eight years were the hottest since records began, even with the cooling influence of a drawn-out La Nina weather pattern.<br />”<br />”According to six leading international temperature data sets consolidated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a UN agency, the past eight years were the warmest on record globally, fueled by ever-rising greenhouse gas concentrations and accumulated heat.<br />”<br />”The WMO said, last year, as the world faced a cascade of unprecedented natural disasters made more likely and deadly by climate change, the average global temperature was about 1.15 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The WMO found, 2016 as the hottest year on record, followed by 2019 and 2020.<br />”<br />”The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA have released similar 2022 global temperature figures. Head of the US space agency, Bill Nelson, described them as alarming.<br />”<br />”NOAA's Chief of climate monitoring, said, it is highly likely that there will be a year in this decade above 1.5 degrees Celsius. However, a sustained average of 1.5 degrees Celsius warming is not projected to occur until the late 2030s or 2040s.&nbsp;</span><br />