Confirming that 2023 is set to be the “warmest year on record”, the World Meteorological Organisation on Thursday warned that the coming year may be worse as the El Nino event of this year is likely to “further fuel the heat in 2024”. Shattering previous records, global mean temperature till October this year was around 1.4 degree Celsius above the pre-industrial level (1850-1900 average), the WMO said. Data so far shows 2023 almost touched the warming limit threshold of 1.5 degree C.