Get the latest Science News and Discoveries

2023 was officially the hottest year on record


None

Get the Android app

Or read this on New Scientist

Read more on:

Photo of Hottest Year

Hottest Year

Photo of record

record

Related news:

News photo

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

News photo

2023 Was Hottest Year on Record by a Lot

News photo

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.”