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See How 2023 Shattered Records to Become the Hottest Year [1]
['Raymond Zhong', 'Keith Collins']
Date: 2024-01-09
The numbers are in, and scientists can now confirm what month after month of extraordinary heat worldwide began signaling long ago. Last year was Earth’s warmest by far in a century and a half.
Global temperatures started blowing past records midyear and didn’t stop. First, June was the planet’s warmest June on record. Then, July was the warmest July. And so on, all the way through December.
Averaged across last year, temperatures worldwide were 1.48 degrees Celsius, or 2.66 Fahrenheit, higher than they were in the second half of the 19th century, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service announced this week. That is warmer by a sizable margin than 2016, the previous hottest year.
On Friday, scientists at NASA similarly found the global average temperature in 2023 was about 1.37 degrees Celsius higher than preindustrial levels, while according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, last year was 1.34 degrees Celsius warmer than the preindustrial average.
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[1] Url:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/climate/2023-warmest-year-record.html
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