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That's according to Copernicus, the European climate agency, which reported that 2023 was 1.48 degrees Celsius (2.66 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.

Earth shattered global annual heat records last year and it's flirting with the warming threshold that nations wanted to stay within to avoid the worst consequences of climate change.

Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said Tuesday.

Scientists from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service say 2023 was the hottest year in global temperature records.

There are several factors that made 2023 the warmest year on record, but by far the biggest factor was the ever-increasing amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that trap heat.

James Hansen says limit will be passed ‘for all practical purposes’ by May though other experts predict that will happen in 2030s

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The only question remaining is how much warmer 2023 will wind up when the world's agencies complete their final analyses over the next two weeks.

Sailors used to fret about how much the tempest would test the worth of their anchor. But as Storm Gerrit blows itself out – the eighth named extreme weather event in four months – it is no longer a case of any port in a storm for mariners, as there are few safe harbours.