-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email The Copernicus Climate Change Service, a European Union organization that monitors global heating, announced on Thursday that the year 2024 will be 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels. That means humanity has passed a critical threshold established in 2015 in the Paris climate accord .
“After 10 months of 2024 it is now virtually certain that 2024 will be the warmest year on record and the first year of more than 1.5oC above pre-industrial levels according to the ERA5 dataset," Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), said in a statement. "This marks a new milestone in global temperature records and should serve as a catalyst to raise ambition for the upcoming Climate Change Conference, COP29.
” "This latest record sends another stark warning to governments at COP29 of the urgent need for action to limit any further warming," says Liz Bentley, chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, t old the BBC . Related “Human sacrifice”: Tucker Carlson says abortion is to blame for freak hurricanes The EU agency announced this moment as nations all over the world gather in the Azerbaijani city of Baku for the 29th Conference of the Parties. The ERA5 dataset found that global temperatures in 2024 were on average 1.
55 degrees Celsius higher than the 1.48 degrees threshold measured in 2023. The report also noted that climate change-fueled major weather events in 2024 such as.