US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said, on Friday, that 2023 is the warmest on record. The news confirmed the previous reports about the record-breaking increase in temperatures in August and September.
The news comes shortly before the meetings of COP-28 in Dubai in late November where phasing out fossil fuels will be top of the agenda.
The latest released data was based on data gathered in September and on simulations of possible outcomes based on the historical record, from 1975 to the present.
NOAA Chief Scientist Sarah Kapnick said: "September 2023 was the fourth month in a row of record-warm global temperatures."
It added: "Not only was it the warmest September on record, it was far and away the most atypically warm month of any in NOAA's 174 years of climate keeping. To put it another way, September 2023 was warmer than the average July from 2001-2010."
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