Welcome to the Rest of Our Lives: A Summer of Record-Breaking Climate Extremes
► Temperature records were broken across much of the planet, as July-August 2023 were the hottest in the global temperature record, dating back to 1850.
► While some amount of warming is inevitable given the amount of carbon pollution that has already been emitted, neither runaway climate change nor catastrophic impacts are inevitable.
► The upshot of these observations is that warming is a...
By
Joshua Busby [Professor, University of Texas-Austin]
September 5, 2023