Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
2023 set to be hottest year in 125,000 years
TL;DR: With two months still to go, European Union scientists declared overnight that 2023 is on track to be the hottest in 125,000 years, with October a full 0.4 degrees celcius warmer than the previous record.
That’s the equivalent of someone breaking Usain Bolt’s record for the 100 metres of 9.58 seconds by half a second. The warming of oceans is also making it one of the wettest on record for rainfall on land, including the wettest ever for Auckland by a large margin, as these charts show.
So why isn’t this front page news or leading the 6pm bulletins?
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