04/03/2023
Updates in Climate Change
Climate change is the most pressing issue of our time. Our Climate Action Campaign aims to tackle the climate crisis and help others to act ethically and efficiently. Globally, January 2023 was the seventh-warmest January in the 174-year NOAA record. According to NCEI's Global Annual Temperature Outlook, it is virtually certain (> 99.0%) that the year 2023 will rank among the 10-warmest years on record. Record-high winter temperatures swept across parts of Europe over the new year, bringing calls from activists for faster action against climate change. Hundreds of places saw temperature records broken, from Switzerland to Hungary, which registered its warmest Christmas Eve in Budapest. The UK experienced its hottest year on record in 2022, according to the national weather service. The Met Office says human-induced climate change has made what would normally be a once-in-500-year event likely to happen every three or four years. The UK’s average annual temperature was 10.03 degrees Celsius last year, breaking 10°C for the first time, and the highest since records began in 1884. The 2022 average was 0.89°C above the 1991 to 2020 average, and 0.15°C above the previous hottest year, set in 2014. The Met Office says all the 10 warmest years have occurred after 2003. According to data published by NASA, CO2 is at its highest point in more than two million years. Pre-industrial CO2 levels were around 280 parts per million (PPM). In 2023, we are close to 420 PPM.
References:
https://www.weforum.org/.../climate-change-environment-news/
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-202301
