Yesterday, NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) announced that the summer of 2003 was the hottest on record. This year saw a massive heat wave that swept across much of the world and was felt in South America, Japan, Europe, and the U.S. This exacerbated deadly wildfires in Canada and Hawaii (predominantly on the … Continue reading 'NASA Confirms That 2023 was the Hottest Summer on Record'
. This year saw a massive heat wave that swept across much of the world and was felt in South America, Japan, Europe, and the U.S. This exacerbated deadly wildfires in Canada and Hawaii and are likely to have contributed to severe rainfall in Italy, Greece, and Central Europe. This is the latest in a string of record-setting summers that are the direct result of anthropogenic climate change.
According to GISTEMP, the months of June, July, and August combined were 0.23 °C warmer than any other summer on record and 1.2 °C warmer than the seasonal average between 1951 and 1980. Said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson in a NASA“Summer 2023’s record-setting temperatures aren’t just a set of numbers – they result in dire real-world consequences.
This chart shows the meteorological summer temperature anomalies each year since 1880. Credit: NASA’s Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin NASA’s temperature record, known as GISTEMP, is assembled based on surface air temperature data acquired by tens of thousands of meteorological stations worldwide. This combines sea surface temperature data from ship- and buoy-based instruments. The raw data is then analyzed using methods that account for local temperature differences and urban heating effects that could otherwise throw off the calculations.
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