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2023 As Hottest Year

January 13 , 2024 188 days 362 0
  • The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) announced that the year 2023 was the planet’s hottest on record by a significant margin and likely the world’s warmest in the past 100,000 years.
  • Last year was about 1.48C warmer than the long-term average before humans started burning large amounts of fossil fuels.
  • Last year was 0.17C (0.31F) hotter than 2016, the previous hottest year – smashing the record by a “remarkable” margin.
  • Since June, every month has been the world’s hottest on record compared with the corresponding month in previous years.
  • Last year, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere rose to the highest level recorded at 419 parts per million.

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