Our predoctoral researcher Nerea Bilbao Barrenetxea has recently been interviewed for a feature article titled «The radiography of a record-breaking 2023», recently issued in the newspaper El Correo.
The feature was published after Copernicus Climate Change Service confirmed that 2023 was the warmest year on record, with a global average temperature of 14.98 ºC, beating the 2016 record by a tenth of a degree. This phenomenon marks a worrying trend, as every day of 2023 exceeded the pre-industrial period by at least 1 ºC, which was the first time that such an excess has occurred continually. Although the 1.5 ºC limit set in the Paris Agreement has not been formally exceeded yet, about 50 % of the days in 2023 did exceed it, and on two days in November the global temperature exceeded 2 ºC. The scientific community links this warming to unprecedented high ocean surface temperatures, as well as the El Niño phenomenon. Despite the temporary lows, global warming is disrupting the climate system, intensifying extreme weather events such as storms, floods and heat waves. Moreover, greenhouse gas concentrations in 2023 reached record levels, highlighting the human role in this accelerated climate change.
For more information and to read the full article (only available in Spanish), visit the following link: https://www.elcorreo.com/antropia/radiografia-2023-record-20240109130805-ntrc.html