Earth Records Hottest Year Ever In 2024 And The Jump Was So Big It Breached A Key Threshold

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Source: Huff Post/AP

Jan 9, 2025, 10:05 PM EST | |Updated 8 hours ago


Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, several weather monitoring agencies announced Friday.

Last year’s global average temperature easily passed 2023′s record heat and kept pushing even higher. It surpassed the long-term warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit ) since the late 1800s that was called for by the 2015 Paris climate pact, according to the European Commission’s Copernicus Climate Service, the United Kingdom’s Meteorology Office and Japan’s weather agency.

The European team calculated 1.6 degrees Celsius (2.89 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming. Japan found 1.57 degrees Celsius (2.83 degrees Fahrenheit) and the British 1.53 degrees Celsius (2.75 degrees Fahrenheit) in releases of data coordinated to early Friday morning European time.

American monitoring teams — NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the private Berkeley Earth — were to release their figures later Friday but all will likely show record heat for 2024, European scientists said. The six groups compensate for data gaps in observations that go back to 1850 — in different ways, which is why numbers vary slightly.

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Link to EU Copernicus PRESS RELEASE - Copernicus: 2024 is the first year to exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial level

This is the EU's equivalent to NOAA. NOAA/NASA expected to release their report later (perhaps today).

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1. Wars and fires are not helping.

Heat will be a mass casualty event one of these years. 2040? 2035? Another ten years of this with exponential growth. We're doomed.

[Think. Again.]

2. Wars and fires will be RESULTS of climate, not causes.

[slightlv]

5. I think its more an endless loop

With one causing but also resulting from the other. It's important to keep the original cause up front of everyone all the time, because the other side will scream that any warming is due because of the fires. Not true, but sellable to low info voters.

[Think. Again.]

7. Burning fossil fuels is the only cause.

[Think. Again.]

3. History will show that we knew what we were doing all along.

Our descendants will hate us, and rightfully so.

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4. As a father who has only been on this planet for 50 years

It disgusts me how poorly we have treated this place and what we will leave for our kids

I almost fear they are numb to what is to come =(

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6. A little numbness might not be so bad

As long as it doesn't lead to more generalized apathy. Numbness might be a survival method for them that will also allow them to act better than we have. We old hippies and flower children were on this decades ago... one of the reasons they had to ridicule us to death.

[NowsTheTime]

8. Perhaps Wild Fires didn't "Start the Fire", but they are adding CO2 & Heat to the atmosphere and removing a Carbon Sink!

The word exponential may possibly apply.