2023, Hottest Ever.
“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 climate monitor announced on Tuesday. That is warmer by a sizable margin than 2016, the previous hottest year.
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2023 was a year that everyone felt the effect of climate change from the scorching parking lots of Phoenix to the farthest reaches of the Canadian Tundra. There is no doubt the Earth is warming and the warming trend could be accelerating faster than previously anticipated. The warming temps. can and will spell disaster for millions and possibly billions of people Worldwide who live on the margins of existence with little room for the inevitable failed harvests, floods, raging fires that are coming.
