2023 is officially the hottest year in the last 250,000 years

Two new reports confirm 2023 to be the hottest year in modern history.

Thred Media
3 min readNov 20, 2023

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We are living through global warming in real time.

This week, it was confirmed that 2023 is the hottest year in the past 125,000 years — meaning we’ve already lived through the warmest 12 months in human history (give or take a few years).

While we still have over a month until 2024, EU scientists have said it’s ‘virtually certain’ that this year will be the hottest in recorded history, after five consecutive months of ‘record-obliterating temperatures’.

October smashed the previous temperature record, from 2019, by a significant margin.

‘The record was broken by 0.4 degrees Celsius, which is a huge margin’ said C3S Deputy Director Samantha Burgess, who described October 2023 temperatures as ‘very extreme’.

Globally, the average surface air temperature in October was 1.7 degrees Celsius warmer than the same month in 1850–1900, the…

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