A Year of Monthly Temperature Records

Narration: Dr. Kate Calvin

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Hi. My name is Doctor Kate Calvin.

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I'm NASA's Chief Scientist and Senior

Climate Advisor.

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And I'm going to answer

some of the top questions

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that we're getting from users

like you about climate

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This May was the hottest May on record.

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So we've had now 12 consecutive record

breaking months of heat.

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That means for the last year,

every month has been

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the hottest of that month on record.

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so May was the hottest May on record.

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2023 was the hottest year on record.

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We're also seeing other changes

in in ecosystems all around the world.

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So we're seeing changes in precipitation

patterns.

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We see more heavy precipitation

in some regions.

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We see more droughts.

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We're seeing declines in ice,

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both Arctic sea ice as well as changes

in the mass of ice sheets.

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We are seeing increases in sea level

that affect coastal communities

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all around the world,

and we're seeing all of these changes.

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We can observe them through surface

measurements,

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we can see them through satellite

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based measurements, and we can see how the

Earth is changing over time.

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So what

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we mean by that is that May

is the hottest May on record.

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April was the hottest April on record.

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There is still a seasonal cycle.

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But what we're saying is that

that winters are getting hotter

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than anything we've experienced,

that we've recorded before.

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Summers are hotter than what

we've recorded before, and so that each

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individual month is, respectively,

the hottest of that month on record.