Its now official. 2023 was the hottest year on record, and likely the world’s warmest in the last 100,000 years, driven largely by climate change.
According to the EU’s climate change service, 2023 saw “unprecedented global temperatures from June onwards” which lead it to become “the warmest year on record — overtaking by a large margin 2016, the previous warmest year”.
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According to the EU’s climate change service, 2023 saw “unprecedented global temperatures from June onwards” which lead it to become “the warmest year on record — overtaking by a large margin 2016, the previous warmest year”.
Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/are-we-on-the-brink-of-climate-disaster-1.100377730
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00:00It's now official. European Union scientists have declared that 2023 was the warmest year
00:10on record and 2024 may actually be even worse. If you look at the various climate events
00:16of the last year, you could see that this was coming. You had wildfires, the worst in
00:21fact that Canada had ever seen. Wildfires in Greece, very, very high temperatures in
00:27Europe exceeding 40 degrees Celsius continuously for many days. In many parts of America, there
00:33were some places that recorded close to 50 degrees Celsius as well, which is extremely,
00:38extremely hot. And then you had other kinds of freak weather from a lack of snow in many
00:42places. Even now, as I speak here in Gulmarg in Kashmir, which is a ski resort, there has
00:48been no snow at all. It's completely green and normally by this time you have people
00:52on the slopes. And there are many other parts of the world which are facing a similar phenomenon.
00:57The point is that the climate change crisis is something that is affecting us now. This
01:03is not something that's affecting future generations. Scientists believe that the latest report
01:07might spur countries to act more quickly on phasing out fossil fuels. Yes, there was an
01:13agreement on doing just that at the recently concluded COP28 summit. But the fact is that
01:18agreement doesn't go far enough because there are no obligations on any country to follow
01:24what was agreed upon. So until there are legal obligations in place and goals in place which
01:31are realistic, it looks like the climate change crisis is only set to get worse in the years ahead.