2023 became the hottest year in the world
The European Union’s climate monitor confirmed that 2023 was the hottest year on record, and the Earth’s surface temperature approached the critical threshold of 15 degrees Celsius.
Copernicus, the European Union’s climate research and monitoring center, reported on Tuesday, January 9th, that due to climate change last year, heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires increased, and the average Earth temperature rose to 1.48 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, which is the set threshold for controlling global warming.
Samantha Burgess, the deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Center, said during a press conference coinciding with the release of this report that 2023 was the first year in which every single day was more than one degree Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times. It is highly likely that last year’s temperature was higher than any other period in the past 100,000 years.