Why Were 2023 and 2024 So Hot?
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 7, 2025
The year 2023 was by far the warmest in Earths recorded history, and perhaps in the past 100,000 years , shattering the previous record set in 2016 by 0.27C (0.49F). Over the last few decades, there has been an observed decrease in total planetary cloud cover , especially over the North Atlantic Ocean off the Northeast US coast.
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