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The final numbers are in, and the heat in 2023 was record-smashing
2024 is looking hot, too.
On average, global temperatures have risen about 1.2 degrees Celsius since the Industrial Revolution due to greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. That might not seem like a big change, but it’s already been enough to fuel deadly heatwaves in Europe, North America, and China last year that would have been “ extremely rare or even impossible without human-caused warming,” according to an international collaboration of researchers called World Weather Attribution. This has profound consequences for the Paris Agreement and all human endeavours,” Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, said in the press release.
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