WELLINGTON: The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha apai volcano in 2022 shot out an unprecedented amount of water vapor into the sky, reaching heights of up to 55 km and depleting 5 percent of the ozone layer in some regions in just one week, according to a study published on Friday.
With three months of 2023 still remaining, Carbon Brief’s analysis reveals there is a greater than 99% chance that 2023 will be the hottest year since records began in the mid-1800s, and likely for millennia before as well.
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