Times (UK): Next year is “more likely than not’ to be the world’s warmest year on record and man-made climate change will be a factor, according to the Met Office. It said that natural weather patterns would contribute less to next year’s temperature than they did in 1998, the current warmest year in the 160-year record. El Niño effect, the cyclical heating of the Pacific Ocean, is much weaker than it was in 1998 but the Met Office expects the warming effect of greenhouse gas emissions to …