2024-01-12 17:49:22
2023 was the hottest year on record. OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE / AFP
THE CHEKING PROCESS – This statement from the deputy director of the European Copernicus program sparked numerous reactions.
2023, the year of all records. Confirming this week that the past year was the hottest on record, Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus’ Climate Change Service (C3S), said last year’s temperatures “probably exceed those of any period for at least 100,000 years“. This estimate is made by comparing recent meteorological observations to paleoclimatic data cited in IPCC reports, which rely on natural archives contained in ice or sediments in order to “ rebuild » the past climate, she clarified Tuesday at a press conference.
However, the ancestor of our thermometer was only developed in the 17th century and direct observations on a planetary scale only date back to 1850, with the gradual construction of networks for meteorological measurements of the air and the surface of the oceans. , recalls paleoclimatologist Valérie Masson-Delmotte
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