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2023 is the hottest year on record, with global temperatures close to the 1.5°C limit
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A year featuring extreme events across the globe is now officially Earth's hottest year on record, according to Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) analysis. The C3S Global Climate Highlight report for 2023 shows that 2023 was 1.48°C warmer than the 1850-1900 pre-industrial reference level with close to half of the days in 2023 exceeding the 1.5°C warming limit, and also surpassing the previous highest annual value, reached in 2016.
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WMO State of the Global Climate in 2021 report: four key climate change indicators break records
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Four key climate change indicators – greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification – set new records in 2021. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), this is another clear sign that human activities are causing planetary scale changes on land, in the ocean, and in the atmosphere, with harmful and long-lasting ramifications for sustainable development and ecosystems. Western Europe experienced some of its most severe flooding on record in mid-July associated with large economic losses in Germany.
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Extreme heat, widespread drought typify European climate in 2022
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Last year, Europe experienced its hottest summer and second warmest year on record, according to the 2022 edition of the Copernicus Climate Change Service’s (C3S) European State of the Climate (ESOTC) report. Globally, the last eight years have been the warmest on record, while in recent decades Europe has warmed faster overall than other continents.
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