“As the heat builds again in 2023, it is perfectly possible that we will touch or even exceed 1.5°C for the first time.”
– Earth science scholar and writer
Bill McGuire, forecasting the cataclysmic effects of the next
El Niño. The recurrent Pacific climate pattern is known to boost global temperatures and predicted to return in 2023. “When it does, the extreme weather that has rampaged across our planet in 2021 and 2022 will pale into insignificance,” McGuire writes.