BRUSSELS This year is "virtually certain" to be the hottest in recorded history with warming above 1.5C, EU climate monitor Copernicus said on Nov. 7, days before nations are due to gather for crunch U.N. climate talks. The European agency said the world was passing a "new milestone" of temperature records that should serve to accelerate action to cut planet-heating emissions at the U.N. negotiations in Azerbaijan next week. Last month, marked by deadly flooding in Spain and Hurricane Milton in