Month after month, global temperatures didn’t just break records, they smashed them. 2023 was the planet’s warmest year on record and perhaps in the last 100,000 years. By far.
Average temperatures were 1.48 degrees Celsius, or 2.66 Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels, according to an announcement this morning by Copernicus, the European Union’s climate monitor. The previous record was in 2016.
Temperature records started being shattered in June. From then on, every month has been the warmest on record.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/climate/2023-warmest-year-record.html
