2023 is set to be the hottest year on record: How fast are European countries heating up?

Scientists confirmed this week that summer 2023 was the hottest season the World has ever seen by a large margin. “It’s hugely pronounced on the graph, and it makes me really nervous for what’s to come,” says Dr Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). The boreal (northern hemisphere) summer June-July-August leapt to an average temperature of 16.77C – 0.66°C above the average for this time of year. “This is one of the challenges that we face as a climate scientist,” she explains. The new record isn’t out of line with what scientists had predicted f…

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