2023 was officially the hottest year on record
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Last year was officially the warmest ever recorded, according to the European climate monitoring organisation, Copernicus. Also: the US continues its diplomatic efforts in Israel as 57 deaths are reported in one central Gaza hospital overnight, and South Korea bans the killing and selling of dogs for food.
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| 0:17.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Nick Miles and at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday the 9th of January these are our main stories |
| 0:27.4 | 2023 has been confirmed as the hottest year on record as temperatures rose |
| 0:32.3 | exceptionally across the globe. |
| 0:34.7 | Reports of intense bombing in southern Gaza as the US Secretary of State meets the Israeli |
| 0:40.2 | President in Tel Aviv and a mixed response to South Korea's governments |
| 0:44.8 | banning the killing and selling of dogs for food. Also in this podcast I had |
| 0:51.9 | exchanged messages with my fictional mom I looked at photos of families I watched a bit of telly |
| 0:58.6 | They changed the world with the iPhone will Apple do it again with VR headsets. |
| 1:05.0 | We become used to hearing about world-breaking temperature records |
| 1:10.0 | but here's a hugely significant one. |
| 1:12.0 | 2023 was the hottest year on record. |
| 1:16.0 | Data from the European Climate Monitoring Organization Copernicus |
| 1:20.0 | indicates it surpassed 2016 by 0.17 degrees Celsius. |
| 1:26.0 | Or to pick through this for us I spoke to our environment correspondent Matt McGraw. |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah Nick you might be forgiven for thinking that breaking the previous hottest year record by 0.17 degrees |
| 1:36.7 | Celsius wasn't a great deal, but you have to put this in context. |
| 1:40.7 | It's not just the hottest year perhaps since records began in |
| 1:44.4 | 1850 but likely according to many scientists the warmest year in a hundred thousand |
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