This Wednesday, September 6, the European observatory Copernicus announced that the year 2023 could well be the hottest ever measured.
A summer of all records. This Wednesday, September 6, the European observatory Copernicus announced that the year 2023 could be the hottest ever measured, after indicating that the summer of 2023 had been the hottest on record in the world. “The climate collapse has begun,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement. “Our climate is imploding faster than we can handle it, with extreme weather events hitting every corner of the planet,” he continued. He also recalled that “scientists have long warned of the consequences of our addiction to fossil fuels”.
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“Climate collapse has begun”
This summer, many parts of the world, such as Asia, Europe and North America, have been affected by severe heat waves, droughts, floods and fires. Impressive and sometimes dramatic phenomena in which people sometimes lose their lives. They also have consequences for economies and the environment. Copernicus clarified that “the June-July-August 2023 season was by far the hottest on record in the world, with a global average temperature of 16.77°C”..
The Copernicus database goes all the way back to 1940, but maybe…
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