12 January 2024 at 17:05 WMO confirms: Global heat record broken by a large margin last year 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded worldwide, and by a large margin, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirms. Every month from June to December the old monthly records were broken. July and August had the highest average global temperatures so far recorded, according to the WMO. The annual average global temperature is now approaching 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Since the 1980s, each decade has been warmer than the previous one. The EU’s climate monitoring service C3S has also determined that 2023 was record hot. – Climate change is the biggest challenge facing humanity, says WMO chief Celeste Saulo on Friday. In addition to man-made global warming, the weather phenomenon El Niño helped to raise temperatures last year. It is expected that El Niño may have an even greater effect next year. – 2024 could be even hotter, says Saulo. (NTB)
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