2023 to Be Hottest Year Ever Recorded at 1.4C Above Pre-Industrial Levels

The world is set to bid farewell to a “remarkable” year that will go down in history as the hottest on record, with global average temperatures at 1.46C above pre-industrial levels and 0.13C higher than the eleven-month average for 2016, currently the warmest calendar year on record. The confirmation arrived this earlier this month, after the European Union Climate Change Copernicus Service (C3S) announced that November 2023 was the hottest November on record globally, with an average surface air temperature of 14.22C, 0.85C above the 1991-2020 average for that month and 0.32C above the temperature of the previous warmest November, in 2020.