The year 2023 has been confirmed as the warmest on record, driven by human-caused climate change and boosted by the natural El Niño weather event.

Global surface temperature is a key indicator used to assess and understand climate change. It refers to the average temperature of the Earth’s surface, including land and ocean areas.

Learn about the climate change, greenhouse gases and carbon sinks, plus the impact burning fossil fuels is having on our global climate.

Scientists agree that annual global temperature needs to be limited to above 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels… check out how we are doing 🙄

Throughout 2023, BBC Weather has reported on extreme weather all around the globe.

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There have been historically high sea temperatures, worrying lows in Antarctic sea-ice, and extreme weather events hitting every continent – the latest being an “unbearable” heatwave in Brazil.

Storms bearing unusually torrential rain and ferocious winds this early in the north Pacific typhoon season have flooded large swathes of East Asia, with China among the countries worst hit.