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Analysis: ‘Greater than 99% chance’ 2023 will be hottest year on record
(www.carbonbrief.org)
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this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2023
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Basically no chance of that happening. Temperatures are rising, just with a bit of noise:
Monotonic would mean that each year is strictly warmer than the last one, but the noise is big enough that we sometimes get a few slightly less warm years before the next record.
The bigger picture looks like this: