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2024: Record heat threatens – 1.5°C mark will be exceeded for the first time!
The EU's Copernicus climate watch predicts that 2024 will be the hottest year on record, with critical consequences for the climate.
2024: Record heat threatens – 1.5°C mark will be exceeded for the first time!
Alarming forecasts: 2024 will be the hottest year ever!
The world is on the brink! According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, 2024 will almost certainly be the hottest year in human history. A year that will exceed the critical limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius - a point that is crucial for protecting our planet!
The frightening data shows that global temperatures between January and November 2023 were so high that they will dwarf last year. “It is virtually certain that 2024 will be the warmest year on record,” the EU agency announced in its latest monthly report.
An unprecedented hot summer
Scientists agree: the current warm period is the most intense the Earth has experienced in the last 125,000 years. Last month was the second warmest November on record and Portugal recorded its hottest November ever with an average temperature 2.69 degrees Celsius above the 1981 to 2010 average.
The alarming measurements come from billions of data points collected from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations. This precise information is crucial to understanding the extent of global warming.
The critical point has been reached!
2024 will not only be the hottest year, but also the first calendar year to be more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. These values are alarming because scientists warn that long-term exceedance of this limit could have catastrophic consequences for our planet. The international community committed to keeping warming at these safer levels in the Paris Climate Agreement - but the reality is very different!
Current measures to combat climate change are completely inadequate. In October, the UN warned that we were heading for a catastrophic rise of 3.1 degrees Celsius. Emissions of carbon dioxide, mainly from burning fossil fuels, continue to rise despite global pledges to move away from coal, oil and gas.
The effects of climate change are already being felt: this year has seen devastating floods in Spain and Kenya, violent tropical storms in the United States and the Philippines, and severe droughts and wildfires in South America.
At the UN climate talks in November, wealthy countries pledged $300 billion annually until 2035, but this amount is seen as completely inadequate to avert the impending disasters.