A new government report finds that September 2023 was the hottest in the agency's 174-year global climate record. Climate change and El Niño are driving the heat.
An aerial view of a stuck boat on a dried out lake in Bolivia. A new report finds that September 2023 was the hottest September on record. South America - which is coming out of its winter - also saw record high temperatures.An aerial view of a stuck boat on a dried out lake in Bolivia. A new report finds that September 2023 was the hottest September on record. South America - which is coming out of its winter - also saw record high temperatures.
"This was the warmest September on record, but it also beat out the previous record September, which was in 2020, by 0.46 degrees Celsius, or 0.83 degrees Fahrenheit," Bartow-Gillies says."A pretty significant jump." She said another way to think about it is that compared to the average July from 2001-2010,"September 2023 was actually warmer than that."
Two things are primarily driving this. The first is climate change, which is mostly caused by humans burning fossil fuels. And Bartow-Gillies says this heat is also driven byThe September heat affected people all over the world– even in the Southern hemisphere which is coming out of winter, not summer. The NOAA report found North America, South America, Europe, and Africa had their warmest Septembers on record.
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