2024: Record heat threatens-1.5 ° C mark is exceeded for the first time!

2024: Record heat threatens-1.5 ° C mark is exceeded for the first time!

Alarming forecasts: 2024 will be the hottest year ever!

The world is on the abyss! According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the hottest year in the history of mankind will be certainly the hottest year in 2024. A year that will exceed the critical limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius - a point that is decisive for the protection of our planet!

The terrifying data show that the global temperatures between January and November 2023 were so high that they will put the previous year in the shade. "It is practically certain that 2024 will be the warmest year of all time," announced the EU agency in its current monthly report.

an unprecedented heat summer

The scientists agree: the current heat period is the most intense that the earth has experienced in the past 125,000 years. Last month the second warmth of November has been November since the beginning of the records, and Portugal recorded its hottest November ever with an average temperature that was 2.69 degrees Celsius above the average from 1981 to 2010.

The alarming measurements come from billions of data points collected by satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations. This precise information is crucial to understand the extent of global warming.

The critical point is reached!

2024 not only the hottest year, but also the first calendar year that is more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre -industrial values. These values ​​are alarming because scientists warn that a long -term exceeding of this border could have catastrophic consequences for our planet. The international community has undertaken in the Paris climate agreement to keep the warming at this safer level - but reality looks very different!

The current measures to combat climate change are completely inadequate. In October, the UN warned that we are heading for a catastrophic increase of 3.1 degrees Celsius. The emissions of carbon dioxide, which mainly arise from the combustion of fossil fuels, continue to rise, although there are worldwide promises to avert coal, oil and gas.

The effects of climate change can already be felt: this year there were devastating floods in Spain and Kenya, violent tropical storms in the USA and the Philippines as well as heavy drought and forest fires in South America.

At the UN climate negotiations in November, wealthy countries have promised $ 300 billion a year until 2035, but this sum is considered completely inadequate to avert the impending disaster.