{"id":173136,"date":"2023-05-01T20:32:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T00:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=173136"},"modified":"2023-05-01T20:32:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T00:32:26","slug":"world-could-face-record-temperatures-in-2023-as-el-nino-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/world-could-face-record-temperatures-in-2023-as-el-nino-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"World could face record temperatures in 2023 as El Nino returns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0(Reuters) – The world could breach a new average temperature record in 2023 or 2024, fuelled by climate change and the anticipated return of the El Nino weather phenomenon, climate scientists say.<\/p>

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Climate models suggest that after three years of the La Nina weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean, which generally lowers global temperatures slightly, the world will experience a return to El Nino, the warmer counterpart, later this year.<\/p>\n

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During El Nino, winds blowing west along the equator slow down, and warm water is pushed east, creating warmer surface ocean temperatures.<\/p>

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“El Nino is normally associated with record breaking temperatures at the global level. Whether this will happen in 2023 or 2024 is not yet known, but it is, I think, more likely than not,” said Carlo Buontempo, director of the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.<\/p>

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Climate models suggest a return to El Nino conditions in the late boreal summer, and the possibility of a strong El Nino developing towards the end of the year, Buontempo said.<\/p>

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The world’s hottest year on record so far was 2016, coinciding with a strong El Nino – although climate change has fuelled extreme temperatures even in years without the phenomenon.<\/p>\n

The last eight years were the world’s eight hottest on record – reflecting the longer-term warming trend driven by greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

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