The European Copernicus observatory announced this Thursday that last month was the warmest September on record, surpassing the 2020 record by an “extraordinary” margin.
“September 2023 was the most recent September that has been recorded at the world level”, breaking the previous record, in 2020, by an “extraordinary” margin and giving continuity to a series of global mensai records started in June, revealed the Copernicus number monthly report.
With a global average surface temperature of 16.38 degrees Celsius (ºC), the month of September represented an “unprecedented anomaly”, surpassing the record set in the ninth month of 2020 by a margin of 0.5 °C.
September 2023 was “1.75 degrees Celsius warmer than the average September in the period 1850-1900,” before the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on the climate were recorded, Copernicus added.
On the other hand, the global average temperature since January is the warmest ever measured in the first nine months of a year: 1.4ºC above the climate of the 1850s and 1900s and closer than ever to the most ambitious limit of the agreement of Paris (1.5 ºC in several years).
“This extreme month” of September “has propelled 2023 to the dubious honor of leading the ranking, on its way to becoming the hottest year and exceeding the average temperatures of the pre-industrial era by around 1.4ºC,” he said in a statement. . , the deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change service, Samantha Burgess.
Source: TSF
