{"id":252209,"date":"2024-06-06T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-mysterious-x-factor-behind-a-year-of-unbelievable-heat\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T08:39:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T08:39:34","slug":"the-mysterious-x-factor-behind-a-year-of-unbelievable-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-mysterious-x-factor-behind-a-year-of-unbelievable-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"The mysterious X factor behind a year of unbelievable heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Predicting the future has always been a difficult, sometimes fruitless task, but scientists are surprisingly good at divining how hot the year ahead will be. For decades, their models have largely ended up matching global temperatures. Then 2023 came along.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">At the beginning of the year, climate scientists at four organizations\u00a0 \u2014 Berkeley Earth, NASA, the U.K. Met Office, and Carbon Brief \u2014 forecasted that 2023 would be marginally hotter than the year before, with the consensus falling around 1.2 degrees Celsius of warming (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures. But it blew past those projections to become the hottest year on record, reaching an estimated 1.5 C (2.7 F). \u201cWe were really far off, and we don\u2019t know why,\u201d said Zeke Hausfather, one of the scientists at Berkeley Earth who worked on the predictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/science\/mysterious-x-factor-2023-heat-records\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Predicting the future has always been a difficult, sometimes fruitless task, but scientists are surprisingly good at divining how hot the year ahead will be. For decades, their models have largely ended up matching global temperatures. Then 2023 came along. 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