Record-Breaking Weather in 2023 Shows Impact of Climate Change
The annual State of the Climate report underscores how severe and widespread the impacts of global warming have been in recent months.
People on a boat help residents move through floodwater following heavy rains caused by Storm Daniel in Greece.
Photographer: Konstantinos Tsakalidis/BloombergThis year broke records in all the wrong ways. That’s the chilling conclusion of a special report on climate change published today in the journal Bioscience.
“Life on planet Earth is under siege,” said William Ripple, a distinguished professor of ecology at Oregon State University and a lead author on the report. The annual “State of the Climate” analysis aims to provide a succinct and accessible overview of the global warming impacts the world has experienced over the past year, and how we can mitigate them.