(CNN) From France to Australia, from India to Alaska ... if you stepped outside in almost any corner of the globe, you could feel it.

2019 was hot. Really hot.

The only year in recorded history the planet has experienced that was hotter was 2016, and only by a hair -- just 0.04 degrees Celsius.

The past five years and the last decade (2010-2019) were the warmest ever recorded, the report found, and 2019 was the hottest year Europe has ever endured.