Doubt. This doesn’t take weather into account. There are always cold spots even in hot years. Plus, even in warming cycles you still set years that are a little below average. My area was below average in 2023. It’s just weather cycles but we need to communicate climate reality more accurately.
As of the 2022 report the ten hottest years on record for the planet were (in chronological order, not heat) - 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
2023 was the hottest year since records began. So it knocked 2010 off the top ten. Making the last ten years the hottest 10 years on record. If you’re a visual learner here’s a graph -
Doubt. This doesn’t take weather into account. There are always cold spots even in hot years. Plus, even in warming cycles you still set years that are a little below average. My area was below average in 2023. It’s just weather cycles but we need to communicate climate reality more accurately.
As of the 2022 report the ten hottest years on record for the planet were (in chronological order, not heat) - 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
In descending heat level- 2016, 2020, 2019, 2015, 2017, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2014, 2010.
2023 was the hottest year since records began. So it knocked 2010 off the top ten. Making the last ten years the hottest 10 years on record. If you’re a visual learner here’s a graph -