Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed.
The last big community run of models had a bunch of them use a new cloud model, which forecast much more heating in the future because they stopped having clouds form at some latitudes.
That hasn’t happened, and isn’t what’s responsible for the temperature jump in 2023.
The last big community run of models had a bunch of them use a new cloud model, which forecast much more heating in the future because they stopped having clouds form at some latitudes.
That hasn’t happened, and isn’t what’s responsible for the temperature jump in 2023.