It’s official – 2023 was the warmest year on record.
An astonishing seven consecutive months of record-breaking warmth has culminated a grim milestone for humanity: 2023 was, officially, Earth’s hottest year on record. That assessment, announced Tuesday by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, follows a year in which extreme heat smothered multiple continents simultaneously, pushed ocean temperatures to alarming highs and spurred dire warnings about the worsening effects of climate change. … Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus [said in a statement:] “Temperatures during 2023 likely exceed those of any period in at least the last 100,000 years.” … Experts say the changing climate is exacerbating extreme events across the globe, including worsening heat waves, floods, droughts and wildfires.
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