{"id":28242,"date":"2024-08-24T17:59:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T12:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=28242"},"modified":"2024-08-27T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T12:02:00","slug":"state-of-the-climate-in-2023-report-in-context-of-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/24-08-2024\/state-of-the-climate-in-2023-report-in-context-of-drought","title":{"rendered":"State of the Climate in 2023 report in context of Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus :GS 3\/Environment&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In News<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The State of the Climate in 2023 report was released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key Findings<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Extreme <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/26-08-2022\/drought-as-a-planetary-disaster\"><strong>Drought<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> July 2023 set a new record with 8% of global land area under extreme drought, surpassing the previous high of 6.2% from July 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Global <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/26-08-2022\/drought-as-a-planetary-disaster\"><strong>Drought<\/strong><\/a>: 29.7% of global land experienced moderate or worse drought, another record-breaking figure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Temperature<\/strong>: 2023 was the warmest year on record, with global surface temperature 0.55-0.60\u00b0C above the 1991\u20132020 average<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Greenhouse Gases<\/strong>: Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide reached new record levels.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ocean Heat:<\/strong> Global ocean heat content up to 2,000 meters depth set new records.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sea Level<\/strong>: Global mean sea level reached 4 inches (10 cm) above the 1993 average, a record high for the 12th consecutive year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cyclones<\/strong>: Tropical cyclone activity was below average with 82 named storms, but the accumulated cyclone energy was above average, with over seven reaching Category 5.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Regional Impact:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mexico had its driest and hottest year since 1950. South America, West Asia, and Europe experienced severe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/26-08-2022\/drought-as-a-planetary-disaster\">drought<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Wildfires<\/strong>: Canada had its worst wildfire season on record, burning 15 million hectares; Greece also saw record wildfires, burning more than four times its long-term average.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Australia<\/strong>: Experienced its driest three-month period on record, with extensive bushfires in the Northern Territory.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Arctic<\/strong>: Fourth-warmest year on record; thawing permafrost and fifth-smallest seasonal sea ice extent observed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Antarctica<\/strong>: Record lows in sea ice extent and area were seen in eight months, with February 21, 2023, reaching all-time record low<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Source : DTE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State of the Climate in 2023 report was released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28359,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28242\/revisions\/28359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}