As global temperatures in this super El Nino year march ever higher, there's one certainty in the chancy world of weather prediction: 2015 will be the hottest year ever recorded. As tens of thousands of leaders and delegates prepare to descend on terror-struck Paris for a global summit to fight climate change, the world's leading meteorological agencies are reporting an unwavering tale of towering temperatures. As the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported overnight, last month was not just the hottest October for global sea- and land-surface temperatures, it was also the most abnormally hot of all the 1630 months it...
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