Several months of this year have already been recognized as the warmest on record, and scientists now believe 2023 as a whole will be a record warm year.
Scientists have been warning for years that humanity would face irreversible consequences of the climate crisis: This year the Earth has already faced record sea and air temperatures, large-scale forest fires and extreme storms. But according to The Guardian, it looks like things could get worse.
Scientists had previously stated that July 2023 was the hottest date on record; During this period, humanity faced incredible heat waves. But now researchers from the Copernicus Climate Change Service have found that November 2023 is the warmest date on record, with the average global temperature 1.7°C above the level of the late 1800s.
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Scientists can almost certainly say that 2023 will be the warmest year on record overall, according to Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service. It is known that the average global temperature is currently 1.43°C above the average pre-industrial level. As a result, scientists once again remind that ambitious steps must be taken urgently to combat climate change.
Observational data shows that humans are constantly releasing heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and destroying nature. As a result, Earth’s average global temperature has increased by 1.2°C since the Industrial Revolution.
Copernicus researchers also noted that October’s global temperature anomaly was the second highest of any month in the data set, second only to September. According to climate scientist Frederick Otto of Imperial College London, we are currently witnessing a record-breaking hot year that has caused record levels of human suffering. In 2023, humanity faced severe heat waves and droughts made worse by extreme temperatures. As a result, the unbearable heat caused thousands of deaths.
According to Akshay Deoras, a meteorologist at the University of Reading, the record breaking in October 2023 was another unfortunate example of temperature records being broken by a large margin. Researchers agree on one thing: Global warming from rising greenhouse gases and El Niño dominating the Pacific Ocean are hitting the planet hard.
Previously Focus wrote that scientists named the hottest period on the planet.
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