2022 Was One of the Hottest Years on Record

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Published on January 16, 2023 - Duration: 01:30s

2022 Was One of the Hottest Years on Record

2022 Was One of the , Hottest Years on Record.

NBC News reports that on Jan.

12, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)... NBC News reports that on Jan.

12, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)... ... both released reports detailing Earth's record-setting temperatures.

NASA found that 2022 was the planet's fifth-warmest year on record, while NOAA said it was the sixth-warmest.

NASA found that 2022 was the planet's fifth-warmest year on record, while NOAA said it was the sixth-warmest.

The difference between fifth and sixth in our ranking is on the order of a hundredth of a degree Celsius.

Thatโ€™s not a robust change, Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, via news briefing.

We try not to make too much of the specific rankings.

The key thing is the long-term trends, and theyโ€™re very consistent from one record [to the next], Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, via news briefing.

Both agencies determined that the past nine years have been the warmest since 1880 when record-keeping began.

In an attempt to avoid the most dire consequences of climate change, .

The 2015 Paris Agreement attempted to limit global warming by 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).

Weโ€™re getting kind of close to that, Russell Vose, chief of climate monitoring at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, via statement.

A U.N.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report found that global warming may exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius by the year 2040


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