According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization, and the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, 2023 was the hottest year on Earth since records began. Record keeping started in 1850 after the Industrial Revolution began. It is also reported that July 2023 was likely the hottest month in the last 120,000 years. The EU’s climate service has said that 2023 was around 1.48ºC warmer than pre-industrial times. Scientists say these record temperatures were driven by human-caused climate change and boosted by the natural El Niño weather event.
This basically means that the Earth is heating up. Throughout the Earth’s history, climate has changed due to natural causes. However, according to the UN’s climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the rapid warming of the Earth in the last hundred years cannot be attributed to natural causes.
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Even though natural factors like El Niño can raise or reduce temperatures for individual years, they say, the temperatures experienced in 2023 go far beyond simply natural causes.
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It is also predicted that 2024 could be even hotter!
What is El Niño?
El Niño is a weather pattern. It is a natural event where warmer surface waters in the East Pacific Ocean release additional heat into the atmosphere. Even though it occurs in the Pacific Ocean, it is so big that it impacts the weather all over the world.
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