{"id":13751,"date":"2023-04-20T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/?p=13751"},"modified":"2023-04-20T18:03:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T17:03:24","slug":"world-could-face-record-temperatures-in-2023-as-el-nino-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/world-could-face-record-temperatures-in-2023-as-el-nino-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"World could face record temperatures in 2023 as El Nino returns"},"content":{"rendered":"
The world could breach a new average temperature record in 2023 or 2024, fuelled by climate change and the anticipated return of the El Nino weather phenomenon, climate scientists say.<\/p>\n
Climate models suggest that after three years of the La Nina weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean, which generally lowers global temperatures slightly, the world will experience a return to El Nino, the warmer counterpart, later this year.<\/p>\n
During El Nino, winds blowing west along the equator slow down, and warm water is pushed east, creating warmer surface ocean temperatures.<\/p>\n
“El Nino is normally associated with record-breaking temperatures at the global level. Whether this will happen in 2023 or 2024 is yet known, but it is, I think, more likely than not,” said Carlo Buontempo, director of the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.<\/p>\n
Climate models suggest a return to El Nino conditions in the late boreal summer, and the possibility of a strong El Nino developing towards the end of the year, Buontempo said.<\/p>\n
The world’s hottest year on record so far was 2016, coinciding with a strong El Nino – although climate change has fuelled extreme temperatures even in years without the phenomenon.<\/p>\n
ALSO READ:\u00a0COP27: Humanity has a choice, cooperate or perish, says UN boss<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The last eight years were the world’s eight hottest on record – reflecting the longer-term warming trend driven by greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n Friederike Otto, the senior lecturer at Imperial College London’s Grantham Institute, said El Nino-fuelled temperatures could worsen the climate change impacts countries are already experiencing – including severe heatwaves, drought and wildfires.<\/p>\n “If El Nino does develop, there is a good chance 2023 will be even hotter than 2016 \u2013 considering the world has continued to warm as humans continue to burn fossil fuels,” Otto said.<\/p>\n EU Copernicus scientists published a report on Thursday assessing the climate extremes the world experienced last year, its fifth-warmest year on record.<\/p>\n Europe experienced its hottest summer on record in 2022, while climate change-fuelled extreme rain caused disastrous flooding in Pakistan, and in February, Antarctic sea ice levels hit a record low.<\/p>\n The world’s average global temperature is now 1.2C higher than in pre-industrial times, Copernicus said.<\/p>\n Despite most of the world’s major emitters pledging to eventually slash their net emissions to zero, global CO2 emissions last year continued to ris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The world could breach a new average temperature record in 2023 or 2024, fuelled by climate change and the anticipated return of the El Nino weather phenomenon, climate scientists say. Climate models suggest that after […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,7],"tags":[1567,2618,2619],"coauthors":[25],"class_list":{"0":"post-13751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-top-news","9":"category-world","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-el-nino","12":"tag-temperature"},"yoast_head":"\n