WASHINGTON — July 2023 will probably be the world's hottest month in 'hundreds, if not thousands, of years', top NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt said on Thursday (July 20).
July 2023 will probably be the world's hottest month in "hundreds, if not thousands, of years", topThis month has already seen daily records shattered according to tools run by the European Union and the University of Maine, which combine ground and satellite data into models to generate preliminary estimates.
"We are seeing unprecedented changes all over the world — the heat waves that we're seeing in the US in Europe and in China are demolishing records, left, right and centre," he added. Though El Nino is playing a small role,"what we're seeing is the overall warmth, pretty much everywhere, particularly in the oceans. We've been seeing record-breaking sea surface temperatures, even outside of the tropics, for many months now.
What is happening right now is increasing the chances that 2023 will be the hottest year on record, which Dr Schmidt currently assigned a"50-50 chance" based on his calculations, though he said other scientists had placed it as high as 80 per cent.
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