Earth’s hottest 12-month streak

The world has just experienced its hottest 12-month period in recorded history, with the average global temperature over 1.3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels between November 2022 and October this year.

Within the 12 months, the world has also witnessed some alarming statistics:

- Over that time, 90% of people worldwide (and 49% in the U.S.) experienced at least 10 days of temperatures very strongly influenced by climate change.

- One-in-four people on Earth faced extreme, persistent, and dangerous heat waves driven by carbon pollution.

Analysis of international data, conducted by Climate Central scientists, found that human-induced climate change had significantly elevated temperatures around the world.

@Andrew Pershing, vice president for science at Climate Central, said the numbers were stark but not surprising.

"This is the hottest temperature that our planet has experienced in something like 125,000 years," he said.

"These impacts are only going to grow as long as we continue to burn coal, oil and natural gas — that is the ultimate driver of the changes that we're seeing around the planet."

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