Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Year : 1, Issue : 19
Last year was the planet’s hottest on record by a substantial margin and likely the world’s warmest in the last 100,000 years, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Tuesday.
Since June, every month has been the world’s hottest on record compared with the corresponding month in previous years.
“This has been a very exceptional year, climate-wise… in a league of its own, even when compared to other very warm years,” C3S Director Carlo Buontempo said.
Buontempo said it was “very likely” the warmest year in the last 100,000 years.
The economic consequences of climate change are also escalating. The U.S. suffered at least 25 climate and weather disasters with damages exceeding $1 billion, National Centers for Environmental Information data show. Prolonged droughts ravaged soybean crops in Argentina and wheat in Spain.
Source: Reuters
