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Record warm 2023 tops global heat records amid near 1.5C limit
Copernicus reports 2023 global temperature 14.98C, about 1.48C above preindustrial levels, with January 2024 on track to exceed 1.5C for a 12 month period. The year saw record heat across Europe and North America, fueling deadly droughts, floods, and wildfires, as scientists warn the threshold remains perilously close.
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Earth
European Climate Agency
Copernicus
Paris
Samantha Burgess
Burgess
Europe
North America
China
Horn of Africa
Libya
Canada
Imperial College
Friederike Otto
Otto
NOAA
Antarctic
Central Pacific
Arctic
Southern
Indian Oceans
Malte Meinshausen
University of Melbourne
United States
NASA
United Kingdom
Meteorological Office
Berkeley Earth
Japanese Meteorological Agency
University of Alabama Huntsville
Carlo Buontempo
Meinshausen
Buontempo