Click the link to read the article on The Washington Pose website (John Muyskens and Niko Kommenda). Here’s an excerpt:
Last year, more than 40 percent of the Earth’s surface was at least 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than in the late 1800s, a Washington Post analysis of temperature data released by the nonprofit Berkeley Earth found…Roughly one-fifth of the globe has already warmed by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F) compared with the late 1800s, before humans started burning fossil fuels on a large scale. Around 5 percent of the planet has warmed more than 3 degrees Celsius (5.4F) — a fast-warming area around the Arctic…Swaths of Canada and the northern U.S. saw temperatures at least 2 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial average, contributing to Canada’s worst ever recorded wildfire season…Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia all experienced unusual temperature spikes in 2023 despite warming more slowly in recent decades, according to Berkeley Earth data…2023 saw record levels of heat in the oceans too.