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In today's Morning Brief, Canadians could be among the billions of people around the world heading to the polls this year. But with fake products of generative artificial intelligence spreading online, figuring out what's real and what's not is becoming harder. Is Canada prepared for an AI election?

So hot, the global average temperature exceeded the level world leaders hoped we’d stay below until 2100.

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.

"The Post has mapped the regions that saw the largest temperature anomalies in 2023 — places that have warmed so fast that the climate is already testing the limits of human infrastructure and the ability of the natural world to cope."

This is a re-post from the Climate Brink

Prof. Celeste Saulo: "We cannot afford to wait any longer" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate the transition to renewable energy sources.

US special envoy for climate change, plans to step down by spring, ending a three-year run in a major diplomatic role, reports the New York Times

The global average temperature last year was 1.39ºC (2.5ºF) hotter than the pre-industrial baseline, according to NASA.

As the final numbers are tallied on 2023, scientists say the world's oceans may help decide whether 2024 is even hotter.

Nearly 29% of Earth’s population experienced record warmth in 2023, a year that ended 1.5°C warmer than the pre-industrial average, Berkeley Earth said in its Global Temperature Report for the last year. | World News