NEW data confirms that 2024 will be the hottest year on record and the first calendar year to exceed the Paris Agreement threshold.
Nearly all the world’s countries pledged to strive to keep global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius in the Paris Agreement, which scientists said would prevent cascading and worsening impacts such as droughts, heat waves and catastrophic sea level rise.
They warn at that level, the human-caused climate crisis fueled by heat-trapping fossil fuel pollution — begins to exceed the ability of humans and the natural world to adapt.
Data released Wednesday by Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service shows 2024 is “virtually certain” to shoot above that threshold.
As climate change-fueled extreme weather is killing more people and costing economies billions of dollars each year, the climate crisis has been given top billing at major international forums like the G7 and G20.
(CNN)
