Here's what's driving the record autumn heat (it's not just carbon emissions)

By Paulo Ceppi, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Imperial College London
Piers Forster, Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds

Climate scientists have detected a striking jump in global temperatures during 2023. September was 1.75°C above Earth’s pre-industrial average temperature and a whole half-degree celsius warmer than the previous hottest September.

These observations have been variously described as “shocking”, “mind-blowing” and “gobsmacking” by leading…

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