The last four years were the hottest since global temperature records began, the UN confirmed in an analysis that it said was a "clear sign of continuing long-term climate change."
While Australia just suffered through it's hottest January on record, around the world things aren't much better.
The past four years - 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 - have been confirmed as the warmest years on record around the world, according to new research released by the UN's World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) on Thursday.
Average global surface temperatures were 1.0 degree Celsius above pre-industrial times in 2018, the report said, based on data from US, British, Japanese and European weather agencies.
"The long-term temperature trend is far more important than the ranking of individual years, and that trend is an upward one," WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said in a statement.
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