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Global Climate Report 2023

March 23 , 2024 246 days 557 0
  • Greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, and sea level rise all are reached record highs in 2023.
  • The new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is titled as “State of the Global Climate 2023”.
  • It confirmed that 2023 was the warmest year in the 174-year observational record.
  • The global average near-surface temperature was 1.45 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial baseline (1850-1900).
  • CO2 concentration continued to rise in 2023 while the global mean sea level reached a record high.
  • The rate of sea level rise in the last 10 years (2014–2023) has more than doubled since the first decade of the satellite record (1993 – 2002).
  • The global set of reference glaciers for the hydrological year 2022-2023 have experienced the largest loss of ice on record (1950-2023).

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