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This year broke records in all the wrong ways. That’s the chilling conclusion of a special report on climate change published today in the journal Bioscience. “Life on planet Earth is under siege,” said William Ripple, a distinguished professor of ecology at Oregon State University and a lead author on the report. The annual “State
The trend over recent decades is stark enough, but this year stands out as evidence of accelerated warming.
One of the strangest things in this year’s report was just how hot 2023 has been. Before 2000, for example, global average daily temperature never went higher than 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-industrial levels.
The first three quarters of 2023 has seen exceptional heat globally, putting 2023 on track to be the warmest year since records began in the mid-1800s.
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