This year is almost certain to be the warmest on record, meteorologists are
predicting. With three-quarters of the year gone, average temperatures across
the world for 1997 are 0.38 °C higher than the average for the period
1961-1990. “This is the same as in 1995,� which set the previous record, says
David Parker of Britain’s Meteorological Office in Bracknell. “But with an El
Niño in full flow, there is a strong warming trend, so a record is almost
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