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Nearly 29% of Earths population experienced record warmth in 2023, a year that ended 1.5C warmer than the pre-industrial average, Berkeley Earth, a California-based non-profit, said in its Global Temperature Report for the last year.P)..
While the report concurred with other datasets that said the last year was the warmest on record, it highlighted differences in methodologies and said, The global annual average for 2023 in our dataset was estimated as 1.54 0.06 C above the average during the period 1850 to 1900..
The Berkeley Earth report conclusively said that higher temperatures were being driven by man-made global warming, while also listing natural and man-made factors that contributed to the unusual heat last year..
The high temperatures and the extreme weather events it triggered have led to speculation that the rate of global warming is accelerating. 2023 is definitely a major misfit to the model, but it remains to be seen if 2023 is merely an unusual outlier or if it is an indication of unexpected changes ahead, Robert Rohde, Berkeley Earth Lead Scientist, said in a release..
In 2023, 17% of the Earths surface sizzled in record high temperatures and these areas coincided with major population centres..
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