Scientists predict that “2023 will be the warmest year ever recorded”

The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has assured this Wednesday in its monthly climate bulletin that 2023 will surely be the warmest year ever recorded, after establishing that last month was the hottest October in history.

«Exceptional temperature anomalies were recorded in October 2023, after four consecutive months of breaking global temperature records. “We can say almost with certainty that this year will be the warmest on record,” said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the C3S.

The average surface air temperature last month was 15.30 degrees Celsius, which is 0.40 degrees above the previous record for October, set in 2019, which represents a large margin. This temperature anomaly is the second highest of all months behind last September, which also surpassed the temperature record for that month by a notable difference.

The extreme warming in recent months is the result of continued greenhouse gas emissions from human activity, combined with the El Niño weather phenomenon, which warms the surface waters of the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean.

Michael Mann, a climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, stated that most years in which the El Niño phenomenon occurs, especially in recent times, break records, since the extra global warming that This marine current contributes “adds to the constant ramp of warming caused by man.”

“We must not allow this year’s devastating floods, wildfires, storms and heat waves to become the new normal,” said Piers Forster, a climatologist at the University of Leeds in England, ensuring that if gas emissions are reduced greenhouse effect over the next decade, the rate of warming can be “halved.” With RT

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