Researchers from Copernicus Climate Change Services, The EU’s Earth observation program predicts that 2023 will be a very definitive year warmer than any other year ever measured. So far this year, temperatures are 1.43 degrees higher than the pre-industrial average.
The Paris Agreement states that temperatures should not be warmer than 2 degrees, and “preferably” no higher than 1.5. In contrast, the world is on track to warm by 2.5 degrees.
Samantha Burgess Deputy Director at Copernicus a win for The Guardian That the sense of urgency to take ambitious action grows stronger, when the world will gather in late November for a climate summit in Dubai.
On Saturday, a new European heat record for November was also reached a temperature of 35.1 degrees was measured in the city of Sisi on the Greek island of Crete.
Friederike Otto, climate researcher at Imperial College London, a win for The Guardian that record heat in 2023 will mean human suffering.
– In this year, extreme heat waves and periods of drought, exacerbated by these extreme temperatures, causing thousands of deaths, people losing their livelihoods, being displaced, and then disappearing. This is an important note. That’s the reason why the Paris Agreement is a human rights treaty, and violating the objectives written therein means violating human rights on a large scale, said Otto Guard.
Hetebølga has set new heat records in several places in Europe. Photo: Dan Cristian Padure/Unsplash
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