[ad_1] On Thursday, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said global average temperatures for January through to September were 1.4C hig
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On Thursday, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said global average temperatures for January through to September were 1.4C higher than during the pre-industrial period of 1850 to 1900.
The result was 0.5C higher than for the equivalent period in 2016, which is the current record-holder for the world’s hottest year.
The scientists also said data from the month of September contained the largest temperature anomalies of any year stretching back to 1940, with the month as a whole found to be 1.75C warmer when compared to the pre-industrial period.
In fact, Zeke Hausfather, climate lead at tech company Strike and a scientist at Berkeley Earth, described September’s temperatures as “absolutely gobsmackingly bananas”.
Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the C3S, described September’s results as unprecedented and record-breaking.
“The unprecedented temperatures for the time of year observed in September — following a record (northern hemisphere) summer — have broken records by an extraordinary amount,” she said in a statement.
“This extreme month has pushed 2023 into the dubious honour of first place — on track to be the warmest year and around 1.4°C above pre-industrial average temperatures.”
World leaders will convene in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates — which, curiously, have some of the world’s highest levels of emissions per capita — in late November and early December for talks on how to address climate change.
Dr Burgess said that, two months out from the COP28 conference, “the sense of urgency for ambitious climate action has never been more critical.”
C3S’s declaration comes after a major UN report found that the world is, unsurprisingly, not on track to meet the long-term goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
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