NASA and NOAA have officially declared 2023 as the hottest year on record. NASA and NOAA have officially declared 2023 as the hottest year on record, marking a concerning trend in global temperatures.
Last year, the global average temperature was 14.98 C – the highest ever recorded since data collection began, European climate agency Copernicus said in its annual report.
2023 was the hottest year on record, with Earth's surface nearly breaching the critical limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius above late 19th century temperatures, the EU climate monitoring service said Tuesday.
The world has not breached that target - which refers to an average global temperature of 1.5C over decades - but C3S said that temperatures had exceeded the level on nearly half of the days of 2023 set "a dire precedent".