The forecast for the global average surface temperature for the five-year period to 2023 is predicted to be near or above 1.0 °C above pre-industrial levels, according to new figures.
The forecast for the global average surface temperature for the five-year period to 2023 is predicted to be near or above 1.0 °C above pre-industrial levels, according to new figures.
If the observations for the next five years track the forecast that would make the decade from 2014 to 2023 the warmest run of years since records began.
The figures released by the Met Office include data from a number of sources including the latest publication of provisional figures for 2018, co-produced by the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, and the publication of the latest Met Office decadal forecast to 2023.
Records for annual global average temperature extend back to 1850.
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