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2025-01-10 16:02:35 UTC
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/09/climate/2024-hottest-year-record/index.html
2024 was the hottest year on record, breaking the previous record set in 2023
and pushing the world over a critical climate threshold, according to new data
from Europe’s climate monitoring agency Copernicus.
Last year was 1.6 degrees hotter than the period before humans began burning
large amounts of fossil fuels, Copernicus found. It makes 2024 the first
calendar year to breach the 1.5-degree limit countries agreed to avoid under
the Paris climate agreement in 2015.
Last year is part of a pattern of off-the-charts heat. Every single one of the
world’s 10 hottest years happened in the last decade, according to Copernicus
data.
Behind these statistics lies a huge toll. “Every fraction of a degree … brings
more harm to people and ecosystems,” Rogelj said.
The extreme weather that swept the globe last year shows just how dangerous
life in a warmer world already is.
Back-to-back hurricanes in the US, fueled by ultra-warm ocean temperatures,
killed hundreds of people. In Spain, more than 200 people died in catastrophic
floods. Amazon rivers fell to unprecedented lows during the region’s worst
drought on record and the Philippines experienced an extraordinary typhoon
season, with six in just 30 days.
The climate crisis played a role in all of these extreme events, according to
scientific analyses.
2024 was the hottest year on record, breaking the previous record set in 2023
and pushing the world over a critical climate threshold, according to new data
from Europe’s climate monitoring agency Copernicus.
Last year was 1.6 degrees hotter than the period before humans began burning
large amounts of fossil fuels, Copernicus found. It makes 2024 the first
calendar year to breach the 1.5-degree limit countries agreed to avoid under
the Paris climate agreement in 2015.
Last year is part of a pattern of off-the-charts heat. Every single one of the
world’s 10 hottest years happened in the last decade, according to Copernicus
data.
Behind these statistics lies a huge toll. “Every fraction of a degree … brings
more harm to people and ecosystems,” Rogelj said.
The extreme weather that swept the globe last year shows just how dangerous
life in a warmer world already is.
Back-to-back hurricanes in the US, fueled by ultra-warm ocean temperatures,
killed hundreds of people. In Spain, more than 200 people died in catastrophic
floods. Amazon rivers fell to unprecedented lows during the region’s worst
drought on record and the Philippines experienced an extraordinary typhoon
season, with six in just 30 days.
The climate crisis played a role in all of these extreme events, according to
scientific analyses.