[(https://themessenger.com/tech/nasa-noaa-2023-hottest-year-on-record-temperatures)This gif shows the temperature rise year-on-year. Source:NASA “The heat over the last calendar year was a dramatic message from Mother Nature,” University of Arizona climate scientist Katharine Jacobs told Associated Press. According to NASA, the global average temperature last year was 1.17ºC (ºF) above the 1951-1980 baseline and 1.39ºC (2.5ºF) hotter than the pre-industrial baseline (mid-19th century, 1850, when records begin). “We’re frankly astonished,” said Gavin Schmidt, the director of NASA’s Goddard Inst…