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Nature 2023: Part II

Real Climate

This is a follow-on post to the previous summary of interesting work related to the temperatures in 2023/2024. Fig 1B from Goessling et al (2024) giving an attribution of the 2023 anomaly from the pre-industrial. link] The post Nature 2023: Part II first appeared on RealClimate. Watch this space… References H.F.

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Why Were 2023 and 2024 So Hot?

Union of Concerned Scientists

The year 2023 was by far the warmest in Earths recorded history, and perhaps in the past 100,000 years , shattering the previous record set in 2016 by 0.27C (0.49F). According to recent data from NOAAs National Center for Environmental Information, 2024 is likely to be even warmer than 2023. But why were 2023 and 2024 so warm?

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WMO: Update on 2023/4 Anomalies

Real Climate

Readers will recall our previou s discussions on the anomalies in 2023 in particular, and the myriad of ideas that people have published to explain them. There is always something of course – the weather is variable – but for 2023 and 2024 the residuals were higher than for any other year in decades.

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Next Year Likely to Surpass 2023 as the Hottest Ever

Yale E360

With climate change and an incipient El Niño driving up temperatures, 2024 is likely to eclipse 2023 as the hottest year ever, meteorologists project. Read more on E360 →

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Implementing D.E.J.I. Strategies in Energy, Environment, and Transportation

Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition

May 23rd, 2023 at 9:30 am PDT, 12:30 pm EDT, 5:30 pm BST Save your seat today!

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U.S. Saw a Record Number of Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters in 2023

Yale E360

In 2023, the U.S. experienced a record 25 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters — three more than the previous record, set in 2020. Read more on E360 →

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Massive wildfires in Canada helped keep the world cooler in 2023

New Scientist

Despite setting a global temperature record, 2023 might have been even hotter were it not for the cooling effect of smoke from massive wildfires in Canada

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