Anyone denying climate change is happening just looks like an idiot.
2023 was the hottest year on record — by a long shot
2023 was the hottest year on record — by a long shot
- 2023 had a global average temperature of 14.98 C, which was 0.17 C higher than the previous highest average temperature in 2016.
- 2023 was 0.60 C warmer than the 1991-2020 average.
- C3S says it is likely that a 12-month period ending in January or February 2024 will see average temperatures exceed 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels.
- 2023 marks the first time on record that every day within a year has surpassed 1 C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.
- Almost 50 per cent of those days were more than 1.5 C warmer than the 1850-1900 average.
- Two days in November were more than 2 C warmer than the pre-industrial average, the first time this has ever occurred.
- July and August 2023 were the warmest two months on record.
- The meteorological summer (June to August) was also the warmest season on record
