Hi. My name is Doctor Kate Calvin.
I'm NASA's Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor.
And I'm going to answer some of the top questions
that we're getting from users like you about climate
This May was the hottest May on record.
So we've had now 12 consecutive record breaking months of heat.
That means for the last year, every month has been
the hottest of that month on record.
so May was the hottest May on record.
2023 was the hottest year on record.
We're also seeing other changes in in ecosystems all around the world.
So we're seeing changes in precipitation patterns.
We see more heavy precipitation in some regions.
We see more droughts.
We're seeing declines in ice,
both Arctic sea ice as well as changes in the mass of ice sheets.
We are seeing increases in sea level that affect coastal communities
all around the world, and we're seeing all of these changes.
We can observe them through surface measurements,
we can see them through satellite
based measurements, and we can see how the Earth is changing over time.
So what
we mean by that is that May is the hottest May on record.
April was the hottest April on record.
There is still a seasonal cycle.
But what we're saying is that that winters are getting hotter
than anything we've experienced, that we've recorded before.
Summers are hotter than what we've recorded before, and so that each
individual month is, respectively, the hottest of that month on record.