The world has experienced its hottest season on record “by a large margin”, the EU earth observation agency reported, as heat records in the 2023 northern hemisphere summer were “not just broken but smashed”, scientists said.
The June to August period was the planet’s warmest since records began in 1940, according to data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service.
The global average temperature was 16.77C, or 0.66C higher than the 1990- 2020 average. This beat the previous record set in 2019 by 0.3C, with an average temperature of 16.48C. Every fraction of a degree of warming of the planet has an exponential effect.
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