The European Copernicus Program announced that 2023 was the hottest year on record, with global temperatures approaching the 1.5°C warming limit compared to the pre-industrial era.
According to the data, the average global temperature in 2023 was 14.98 degrees Celsius, 0.17 degrees Celsius more than in 2016, which was named the hottest year since records go back to 1850.
Copernicus Data, whose various services include one that monitors climate change and another for the atmosphere, reveals that last year was 0.60°C warmer than the 1991-2020 average and 1.48°C warmer than the previous year. -1900).
In a statement, Copernicus highlighted that nearly half of the days in 2023 were more than 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than those in the pre-industrial era, with two days in November being more than 2 degrees Celsius warmer compared to the same period for the first time. . .
Also for the first time, in 2023, temperatures on every day of the year were at least 1°C above the pre-industrial level, with the Copernicus climate change monitoring service estimating that the average global temperature could exceed 1.5°C. Year-round than it was in the pre-industrial era. The 12-month period ends in January or February 2024.
If this estimate is confirmed, the target set in the Paris Climate Agreement, which in 2015 set a limit to the increase in average global temperature at 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial level, would be defeated.
According to data released by Copernicus, 2023 was, after 2020, the second hottest year in Europe, with the temperature rising by another 1.02 degrees Celsius compared to the average for the period 1991-2020.
Antarctic sea ice extent reached historic lows in February 2023, remaining at record low concentrations for eight months.
According to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane, polluting gases that contribute to global warming, continued to increase last year and reached record levels of, respectively, 419 parts per million (ppm) and 1,902 parts per million (ppm). In a billion, billion).
This is largely due to forest fires that have raged for months in Canada, and global carbon emissions from the fires last year rose by 30% compared to 2022, according to Copernicus estimates.
Data from Copernicus, a European Earth observation program run by the European Commission, also highlights that global average sea surface temperatures were “persistently and exceptionally” high in 2023, reaching record levels in the period between April and December. It is associated with marine phenomena. Heat waves in the Mediterranean, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Indian Ocean, North Pacific, and North Atlantic.
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