In one of the first of several teams of science agencies to calculate how off-the-charts warm 2023 was, the European climate agency Copernicus said the year was 1.48 degrees Celsius (2.66 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.
Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency