The November report from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service found the global mean temperature for January to November of this year was 1.46 degrees Celsius higher than the preindustrial average and 0.13 degrees Celsius higher than the 11-month average for 2016, the current warmest calendar year on record.
Last month also marked the warmest November on record globally and was 0.32 degrees Celsius above the temperature of the previous warmest one, which occurred in 2020. This made 2023’s September-November the warmest boreal autumn on record by a wide margin of 0.88 degrees Celsius above the average.
“2023 has now had six record breaking months and two record breaking seasons. The extraordinary global November temperatures, including two days warmer than 2ºC above preindustrial, mean that 2023 is the warmest year in recorded history,” Samantha Burgess, the deputy director for the Copernicus Climate Change Service, said in a statement.
The organization’s findings do not come as much of a surprise as they follow a series of data figures in recent months showing 2023 on track to be the hottest year recorded.
Read more from our colleague Miranda Nazzaro at TheHill.com.
