"Forecast for the Hottest Year... November Temperatures Reach All-Time High"

There is growing consensus that 2023 will be recorded as the hottest year in history.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the European Union's (EU) climate monitoring agency, announced in a report released on the 6th (local time) that the global average temperature from January to November this year was 1.46 degrees Celsius higher than the pre-industrial average temperature from 1850 to 1900, marking an all-time high.

This is 0.13 degrees higher compared to 2016, the previously hottest year on record for the same period (January to November).

November this year was also the warmest November since weather observations began. The global average surface temperature in November was 14.22 degrees Celsius, which is 0.85 degrees higher than the 1991?2020 average and 0.32 degrees higher than the previous record for November set in 2020.

Samanda Burges, Deputy Director of C3S, stated, "The abnormal temperatures in November, including two days that were 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, indicate that 2023 will be the warmest year in history."

At the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2015, 195 countries agreed to keep the global average temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to strive to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Carlo Buontempo, Director of C3S, said, "As long as greenhouse gas concentrations continue to increase, it is difficult to expect different outcomes in the future compared to this year. Temperatures will keep rising, and the impacts of heatwaves and droughts will become more severe. The most effective way to respond to the climate crisis is to reach net zero (carbon neutrality) as soon as possible."