2023 is likely to be the hottest year on record.
It is an alarming milestone just weeks away from the UN’s global COP 28 summit. Until this meeting, the need to step up the fight against the climate crisis will become more urgent by the day.
Scientists confirmed Tuesday that this happened in the wake of possibly record-breaking spring and summer temperatures around the world.
October 2023 was also the hottest October on record.
Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, who made the announcement, said: ‘We can say with certainty that 2023 will be the warmest year on record and that it will now be above the pre-industrial average. 1.43 degrees Celsius is high.’
‘The urgency of climate action at COP 28 has never been greater.’
Copernicus also found that October was the sixth month in a row that Antarctic sea ice was the lowest on record for that time of year. 11 percent below average.
Sea surface temperatures averaged 20.79 degrees Celsius, the highest on record for October.
Europe experienced above-average rainfall during October, particularly in Northern Europe from Cyclone Babbitt and from Portugal and Spain through Cyclone Aileen, which caused heavy rains and flooding.
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It was wetter than average in many areas, including the American Southwest, parts of the Arabian Peninsula, parts of Central Asia and Siberia, southeastern China, Brazil, New Zealand, and parts of South Africa. These conditions were often associated with powerful hurricanes that caused heavy rainfall and considerable damage.
It was drier than average in parts of the southern United States and Mexico, leading to severe drought in central and eastern Asia and parts of Australia.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the European Union’s forecasting and climate agency, based its findings on billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and meteorological stations around the world. A blunt response has been given.
David Ray, executive director of the University of Edinburgh’s Climate Change Institute, said: ‘To put it bluntly, the 2023 figures for air temperature, sea temperature, sea ice and the rest look like something out of a Hollywood movie. .’
In fact, if our current global efforts to combat climate change were a movie, it would be called ‘Hot Mess’.
The WMO and NASA have already called this summer the warmest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, and South America and Australia are also seeing record-breaking winter temperatures.
Higher temperatures are largely caused by greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, which increase the intensity of heat at the Earth’s surface.
Temperatures are also rising due to the appearance of El Nino, a natural weather phenomenon this year.
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2024-10-03 16:57:23