Disturbing new details are emerging about the state of the global climate

We've known for some time that 2023 was by far the warmest year on record, causing widespread alarm among climate scientists. Now, a recently released climate report reveals more worrying trends. According to the State of the Climate 2023 report led by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society no aspect of Earth's climate life support system was spared last year from humanity's impact .
It was all fueled by the accelerating build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which triggered record temperatures on land and at sea. Other changes included scant cloud cover, scant rainfall (but also devastating floods), expanding drought, record fires, shrinking glaciers and ice caps, and rising sea levels. (ImageGeo, Tom Yulsman more at discovermagazine.com)