Provisional State of the Global Climate report 2023

According to the recent United Nations (UN) report, 2023 is set to be the hottest year ever recorded.

Published by – World Meteorological Organisation. The final report is due to be published in the 1^st half of 2024.

Climate chaos – In 2023, Green House Gas (GHG) levels, global temperatures, sea level rise reached record high, while Antarctic sea ice reached record low.
Higher GHGs – Concentrations of the 3 main heat-trapping gases (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) reached record high.
Higher global temperature – This year, till October 2023, was already around 1.4C above the pre-industrial baseline.
CO2 levels was 50% higher than the pre-industrial era and the past 9 years were the hottest years since modern records.
The warming El Nino weather phenomenon, which emerged mid-year, was "likely to further fuel the heat in 2024".
Higher sea level rise – The rate of sea level rise over the past decade was more than twice the rate of the 1^st decade of satellite records (1993-2002).
Lesser Antarctic sea ice - The maximum level of Antarctic sea ice this year was the lowest on record which was a million square kilometres less than the previous record low at the end of the southern hemisphere winter.Swiss glaciers losing 10% of their ice volume in the past 2 years alone
Increasing socio-economic impacts – Dwindling food security and mass displacement.

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