2023 Declared Hottest Year on Record
Scientists are urging for a focus on climate action after 2023 shattered records to become the hottest year the world has experienced.
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00:00 2023 has smashed the record for the world's hottest year by a large margin.
00:06 Europe's Copernicus Climate Change Service found that the average global temperature
00:10 last year reached nearly 15 degrees Celsius, surpassing the previous record of 14.8 in
00:16 2016.
00:17 The primary cause of this increase was continued record emissions of carbon dioxide combined
00:22 with the return of the El Nino climate phenomenon.
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