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"The summer of 2023 was the hottest ever recorded, as the climate crisis and
emerging El Niño pushed up temperatures and drove extreme weather across the
world.
In June, July and August – the northern hemisphere summer – the global average
temperature reached 16.77C, which was 0.66C above the 1991 to 2020 average. The
new high is 0.29C above the previous record set in 2019, a big jump in climate
terms.
The data, from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), showed that
August was about 1.5C warmer than the preindustrial average for 1850 to 1900,
although the goal of the world’s nations to keep global heating below 1.5C will
be considered broken only when this temperature is sustained over months and
years.
Heatwaves, fires and floods have destroyed lives and livelihoods across the
globe, from North and South America, to Europe, India, Japan and China.
“Our planet has just endured a season of simmering – the hottest summer on
record. Climate breakdown has begun,” said the UN secretary general, António
Guterres. “Scientists have long warned what our fossil fuel addiction will
unleash. Our climate is imploding faster than we can cope with, with extreme
weather events hitting every corner of the planet.”
The oceans have been especially hot in recent months. The C3S data showed that
for every day in August, global average sea surface temperatures beat the
previous record set in March 2016, which was also an El Niño year. North
Atlantic Ocean temperatures reached a new record of 25.19C on 31 August.
Antarctic sea ice extent has also been extremely low for the time of year."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
