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2023 confirmed as hottest year ever as climate records ‘tumbling like dominoes’

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The findings are hardly surprising but a global gut-punch nonetheless: 2023 has been confirmed as the hottest year on record “by a large margin”.

For the first time, every day of the year was 1C hotter at a global level than in the pre-industrial era, the EU’s climate change service Copernicus said.

- the temperature goal set by the global Paris Agreement to stave off This was the case for

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