Hottest year on record sent planet past 1.5C of heating for first time in 2024

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Source: The Guardian

Climate breakdown drove the annual global temperature above the internationally agreed 1.5C target for the first time last year, supercharging extreme weather and causing “misery to millions of people”.

The average temperature in 2024 was 1.6C above preindustrial levels, data from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) shows. That is a jump of 0.1C from 2023, which was also a record hot year and represents levels of heat never experienced by modern humans.

The heating is primarily caused by the burning of fossil fuels, and the damage to lives and livelihoods will continue to escalate around the world until coal, oil and gas are replaced. The Paris agreement target of 1.5C is measured over a decade or two, so a single year above that level does not mean the target has been missed, but does show the climate emergency continues to intensify. Every year in the past decade has been one of the 10 hottest, in records that go back to 1850.

“Every year for the rest of your life will be one of the hottest [on] record. This, in turn, means that 2024 will end up being among the coldest years of this century. Enjoy it while it lasts.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/10/world-temperature-in-2024-exceeded-15c-for-first-time

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We can't let this continue. Look to LA. The future is now.

[Dave Bowman]

1. Yes, 1st thing that crossed my mind was L.A.

Global warming deniers are the most infuriatingly ignorant and stupid people...

[erodriguez]

2. They're not stupid. They know what they are doing.

[Dave Bowman]

5. Oh, the ones profiting from this know what they are doing to make a buck and defend their income. That makes them evil.

I was talking about the idiots, mostly magats, who don't "believe" in Global warming but easily swallow the most twisted conspiracy theories out there.

[RazorbackExpat]

3. Can we please use a temperature unit that most Americans

would understand? Americans for the most part don't understand Centigrade. And 1 degree Centigrade doesn't sound anywhere near as bad as 2 degrees Fahrenheit.

[Dave Bowman]

6. "Americans for the most part don't understand Centigrade."

How about Celsius?

[Think. Again.]

4. We've gone from Climate Change, through Climate Chaos, to Climate Collapse....

....and there are STILL people making money from saying it's a hoax.

We need to shut down the Pro-CO2 crowd the minute they start lying.

[Omaha Steve]

7. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING

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