UN Weather Agency: 2023 Is Hottest Year on Record, More Climate Extremes Ahead

FILE - Fire consumes an area next to the Transpantaneira road in the Pantanal wetlands near Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, Nov. 15, 2023. FILE - Residents cross a road damaged during flooding in Tula, Tana River county in Kenya on Nov. 25, 2023. An iceberg floats near at Bransfield Strait shore, Antarctica, Nov. 23, 2023.

The U.N. weather agency said Thursday that 2023 is all but certain to be the hottest year on record, and warning of worrying trends that suggest increasing floods, wildfires, glacier melt, and heat waves in the future.