by James Murphy, The New American:

On Wednesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a statement declaring that the “climate breakdown has begun.” Guterres made the claim after the the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) — a branch of the UN dedicated to weather and climate — declared that Earth had just suffered through the hottest three-month period on record.

The WMO cited data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, and further claimed that 2023 is on track to be the globe’s second-warmest year on record, after 2016.