2023 was officially the hottest year on record

2023 was the hottest year on record—and even hotter than expected

2023 Was Hottest Year on Record by a Lot

2023 saw record-breaking heat and flooding all over the world. When Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies saw the data, he was shocked. “My scientist brain is like ... ‘What's going on?’ And then there's the… ‘Oh, sh*t’ part of my brain,” he said. “We predicted this.”