Next year is predicted to be the 10th year in a row that global temperatures will be at least 1C above pre-industrial levels.
According to foreign media, the forecast estimates that global average temperatures in 2023 will be around 1.2C above what they were before humans started driving climate change – putting it ‘on track’ to be one of the hottest years in the world.
And the UK’s Met Office has said the projection would make it the 10th year in a row to see average global temperatures reach at least 1C above what they were in pre-industrial times, measured as the period 1850-1900. , writes The Independent, Weather.al conveys.
The current hottest year (on record) in records dating back to 1850 is 2016, a year that saw an “El Nino” climate pattern in the Pacific, which raises global temperatures on top of global warming trends.
Professor Adam Scaife, head of forecasting at the Met Office, said: “Without an earlier El Nino to boost global temperatures, 2023 may not be a record year, but with the background increase in global greenhouse gas emissions continuing it is quickly likely that next year will be another ‘most different in this series'”
