2023 Will Be the Hottest Year in History
The world will get hotter in 2023 compared to previous years, scientists said. And this makes "2023 the Hottest Year in History".
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| People sunbathe in Biarritz, France, on Oct. 7. (Photo: Bob Edme / AP file) |
"We can say with almost certainty that 2023 will be the hottest year ever recorded, and is currently 1.43 Celsius above the pre-industrial average," said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service.
"Action for ambitious climate action ahead of Cop28 has never been higher," he added.
Scientists Agree 2023 Will Be the Hottest Year in History
Copernicus scientists found that last month was the hottest October ever recorded in the world, with temperatures 1.7 degrees Celsius above the average October in the late 1800s.
By burning fossil fuels and destroying nature, humans are said to have pumped heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere that have increased the earth's temperature by 1.2 degrees Celsius since the Industrial Revolution.
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The global temperature anomaly in October 2023 is the second highest of all months in the data set, according to scientists, after the previous month.
"The fact that we are seeing this hottest year on record means record human suffering," said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London.
"In this year, extreme heat waves and droughts exacerbated by these extreme temperatures have caused thousands of deaths, people lost their livelihoods, displaced, etc. This is an important record."
"That is why the Paris Agreement is a human rights treaty, and not adhering to its objectives is a violation of human rights on a very large scale," he added.
At a summit in Paris eight years ago, world leaders pledged to try to stop the earth's warming by 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
However, current policies increase the earth's temperature by about 2.4 degrees Celsius.
Akshay Deoras, a meteorological research scientist at the University of Reading, said the temperatures in October 2023 showed how temperature records were getting shattered by a huge margin.
Global warming due to increased greenhouse gas emissions and El Niño in the tropical Pacific Ocean is considered to hit the Earth very hard.