{"id":1155,"date":"2024-01-16T01:29:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T01:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=1155"},"modified":"2024-01-16T02:44:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T02:44:38","slug":"environment_detail_6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=1155","title":{"rendered":"ENVIRONMENT_DETAIL_6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">ENVIRONMENT<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\"><strong>JANUARY 10, 202<\/strong>4<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Last Year Was the Hottest One in Recorded History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>In 2024, scientists predict, we will exceed the warming threshold set by the Paris climate accords.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DAMIAN CARRONGTON<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20231220_zip_b332_002-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1193\" style=\"width:760px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20231220_zip_b332_002-1.webp 321w, https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20231220_zip_b332_002-1-300x168.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The city of Santiago, Chile covered in smoke from forest fires.<strong>Matias Basualdo\/Zuma<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Two thousand twenty-three&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201csmashed\u201d the record for the hottest year by a huge margin, providing \u201cdramatic testimony\u201d of how much warmer and more dangerous today\u2019s climate is from the cooler one in which human civilization developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The planet was 1.48 degrees Celsius hotter in 2023 compared with the period before the mass burning of fossil fuels ignited the climate crisis. The figure is very close to the 1.5 C temperature target set by countries in Paris in 2015, although the global temperature would need to be\u00a0consistently above 1.5 C\u00a0for the target to be considered broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists at the EU\u2019s Copernicus Climate Change Service (CCCS) said it was likely the 1.5\u00a0 mark will be passed for the first time in the next 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The average temperature in 2023 was 0.17 C higher than in 2016, the previous record year, marking a very large increase in climate terms. The primary cause of this increased global heating was continued\u00a0record emissions of carbon dioxide, assisted by the return of the natural climate phenomenon\u00a0El Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The high temperatures drove heatwaves, floods ,and wildfires, damaging lives and livelihoods across the world. Analysis showed some extreme weather, such as\u00a0heatwaves in Europe and the US, would have been virtually impossible without human-caused global heating.\u201cIt was an exceptional year, with climate records tumbling like dominoes. Temperatures\u2026likely exceed those of any period in at least the last 100,000 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0CCCS data\u00a0also showed that 2023 was the first year on record when every day was at least 1 C warmer than the 1850-1900 preindustrial record. Almost half the days were 1.5 C hotter and, for the first time, two days were more than 2 C hotter. The higher temperatures increased from June, with September\u2019s heat so far above previous averages that one scientist called it \u201cgobsmackingly bananas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carlo Buontempo, a CCCS director, said: \u201cThe extremes we have observed over the last few months provide a dramatic testimony of how far we now are from the climate in which our civilization developed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis has profound consequences for the Paris agreement and all human endeavors,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we want to successfully manage our climate risk, we need to urgently decarbonize our economy whilst using climate data and knowledge to prepare for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists\u00a0said recently\u00a0that the Earth\u2019s life-support systems have been so damaged that the planet was \u201cwell outside the safe operating space for humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samantha Burgess, the CCCS deputy director, said: \u201c2023 was an exceptional year, with climate records tumbling like dominoes. Temperatures during 2023 likely exceed those of any period in at least the last 100,000 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Bill Collins, at the University of Reading, UK, said: \u201cIt is a shock that 2023 unarguably smashed the global temperature record. More global warming is expected to cause even wetter winters in the UK and yet more flooding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CCCS highlighted a number of \u201cremarkable\u201d events in 2023, including\u00a0huge blazes in Canada\u00a0that helped drive up global carbon emissions from wildfires by 30 percent, and unprecedented ocean temperatures that caused\u00a0marine heatwaves\u00a0to strike\u00a0many regions.\u00a0Antarctic sea ice also crashed\u00a0to record lows, having previously experienced little obvious impact from global heating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Year Was the Hottest One in Recorded History Two thousand twenty-three&nbsp;\u201csmashed\u201d the record for the hottest year by a huge margin, providing \u201cdramatic testimony\u201d of how much warmer and more dangerous today\u2019s climate is from the cooler one in which human civilization developed. The planet was 1.48 degrees Celsius hotter in 2023 compared with&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=1155\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ENVIRONMENT_DETAIL_6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":523,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"on","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1155\/revisions\/1196"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}