NASA Analysis Confirms 2023 as Warmest Year on Record
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Earth's average surface temperature in 2023 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis by NASA.
- WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Earth's average surface temperature in 2023 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis by NASA.
- "NASA and NOAA's global temperature report confirms what billions of people around the world experienced last year; we are facing a climate crisis," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.
- However, the record temperatures in the second half of 2023 occurred before the peak of the current El Niño event.
- NASA's full dataset of global surface temperatures through 2023, as well as details with code of how NASA scientists conducted the analysis, are publicly available from GISS.