Anomalies, relative to the pre-industrial average temperature, will now be used to publish global temperatures in the future. The global temperature we must not exceed is 15.23 C, (1.50 C above the pre-industrial average of 13.73 C.) see NOAA Climate. link. Below are the 2023 average global temperatures, shown in bold, that were based upon anomalies peculiar to each authority. NOAA 1.35 C at 15.08 C, NASA 1.36 C at 15.09 C. British Met Office 1.45 C at 15.18 C, CRU East, Anglia 1.46 C at 15.19 C, WMO 1.45 C at 15.18 C. The temperatures above from NASA and NOAA are close enough to matching the planetary data below.

A large countdown clock (above) in New York City’s Union Square has now ticked below five years – inching ever closer to the ominous outcome it’s trying to warn against. The Climate Clock is an 80-foot-wide digital clock installed on the face of a building on East 14th Street overlooking Union Square Park in Manhattan. The clock counts down how much time humanity has left to take action to prevent the worst effects of climate change from becoming irreversible.

As of Wednesday, the world has four years and 362 days remaining to take meaningful action to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to the Climate Clock. The 1.5-degree threshold is the “point of no return that science tells us is likely to make the worst climate impacts inevitable,” the Climate Clock’s website says.

Time Magazine wrote:”Back in 2015, scientists thought it would be decades before we reached 1.5°C. Yet, according to CCCS data, every single day of 2023 the global average temperature was at least 1°C warmer than pre-industrial averages; half were above 1.5°C, and two days in November surpassed 2°C. NOAA’s data, which tends to be more conservative, put the 2023 average at 1.35°C above pre-industrial levels, but warned that 2024 had a one-in-three chance of hitting even higher temperatures, and a 99% chance that it would rank among the top five warmest years in human history Last year’s record-high temperature average sparked heat waves, floods, and wildfires around the world, with 28 billion-dollar-or-more climate disasters in the U.S. alone. Climate analyses by attribution scientists showed that many of those extreme events would have been virtually impossible had it not been for global warming caused by rising carbon emissions”.