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Ronald Bailey

It's Official: 2023 Was the Hottest Year on Record

The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reports that 2023 was the hottest year in the instrumental temperature record. That's in part because global temperatures were boosted by the El Niño phenomenon in which the eastern Pacific Ocean surface temperature periodically surges higher.

So how hot was 2023? C3S notes:

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