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EU experts: 2023 breaks record as hottest year in 1,000 centuries

1/10/24, 12:55 PM


The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) announced that last year marked the planet's hottest on record by a significant margin, likely making it the warmest in the past 1,000 centuries or 100,000 years.

This confirmation comes after a series of repeatedly broken climate records throughout the year, making each month since June the hottest in global history compared to its respective month in previous years.

C3S Director Carlo Buontempo described 2023 as an exceptionally warm year, surpassing even other historically hot years.

The EU agency confirmed it as the hottest year since global temperature records began in 1850.

When cross-referenced with paleoclimatic data from sources like tree rings and glacier air bubbles, it's highly probable that 2023 was the warmest year in the last 100,000 years, Buontempo stated.

On average, the planet in 2023 was 1.48 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial period of 1850-1900 when industrial-scale burning of fossil fuels began, leading to increased carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere.

This far exceeds the target set in the 2015 Paris Agreement to prevent global warming from surpassing 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid severe consequences.

Despite not breaching that 1.5-degree target over decades, C3S highlighted that temperatures surpassed this level on nearly half of the days in 2023, setting a concerning precedent.

Professor Hayley Fowler from Newcastle University emphasized the urgent need to reduce emissions in response to this record-breaking trend.

Despite widespread climate targets by governments and companies, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions remain persistently high, reaching record levels in 2023 from burning coal, oil, and gas. Additionally, atmospheric CO2 concentrations surged to a record high of 419 parts per million last year.

It was reported that 2023 marked the first time each day exceeded temperatures 1 degree Celsius hotter than pre-industrial times.

Furthermore, two days in November were 2 degrees Celsius warmer than in the pre-industrial era. The year surpassed the previous hottest year, 2016, by a remarkable 0.17 degrees Celsius.

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