With temperatures measured between January and October of continents and oceans, 2014 may prove to be the warmest year ever in 1880, the World Meteorological Organization.
High temperatures contributed to widespread flooding in many countries, says the UN organization.
- If the trend is maintained in November and December, 2014 is likely to be the warmest year ever recorded and will exceed 2010, 2005 and 1998, it is stated in the assessment of the organization for 2014, published today in Lima, where water international negotiations on climate change.
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), meanwhile announced the results of research on the survival of polar bears will be challenged at the end of this century, if not reduce the broadcasting of harmful gases that warm the world's climate.
Climate change threatens the already critically endangered ecosystems in the Arctic Ocean, causing a marked reduction in the number of polar bears.
The polar bears are threatened by hunger and lack of breeding around the Canada-Arctic archipelago.