>The world breached 1.5C of warming last year for the first time, top international agencies said, as an “extraordinary” spike in the global average temperature sparked fears that climate change is accelerating faster than expected.
>Europe’s Copernicus observation agency confirmed on Friday that 2024 was the hottest year on record, with average surface temperatures 1.6C above preindustrial levels after greenhouse gas emissions hit a new high.
>Copernicus said the years from 2015 to 2024 were the 10 warmest on record.
>The co-ordinated release of 2024 data from six climate-monitoring organisations comes just days before president-elect Donald Trump is expected to withdraw the US from the Paris agreement to tackle climate change.
>The latest data does not represent a definitive breach of the Paris agreement, whose targets refer to temperature averages measured over more than two decades.
>But concerns that climate change has gained pace have been fanned by evidence that the world’s oceans have been slower to cool than expected after the naturally occurring El Niño warming effect on the Pacific Ocean.
>This year is expected to be cooler than 2024, partly because of the diminished impact of El Niño, which is cyclical. The onset of a weak La Niña cooling cycle was confirmed on Thursday by the US weather agency.
>But Samantha Burgess, at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, said it would still probably rank among the three hottest on record.
>“We are now living in a very different climate than our parents and grandparents experienced,” she said, adding that it had probably been 125,000 years since temperatures had been as hot as they were today.
>Copernicus said 2024 was the warmest year on the books for all continental regions, except Antarctica and Australasia, as well as for “sizeable parts” of the world’s oceans, particularly the north Atlantic, Indian and western Pacific oceans.
>Global atmospheric water levels in 2024 reached record levels, at 5 per cent above the 1991-2020 average, fuelling “unprecedented heatwaves and heavy rainfall events, causing misery for millions of people”, Burgess said.
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I still have an irrational fantasy that some goofball or startup is going to crack a viable carbon capture method that completely bails us out of this shitshow, but I know I’m delusional.
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>The world breached 1.5C of warming last year for the first time, top international agencies said, as an “extraordinary” spike in the global average temperature sparked fears that climate change is accelerating faster than expected.
>Europe’s Copernicus observation agency confirmed on Friday that 2024 was the hottest year on record, with average surface temperatures 1.6C above preindustrial levels after greenhouse gas emissions hit a new high.
>Copernicus said the years from 2015 to 2024 were the 10 warmest on record.
>The co-ordinated release of 2024 data from six climate-monitoring organisations comes just days before president-elect Donald Trump is expected to withdraw the US from the Paris agreement to tackle climate change.
>The latest data does not represent a definitive breach of the Paris agreement, whose targets refer to temperature averages measured over more than two decades.
>But concerns that climate change has gained pace have been fanned by evidence that the world’s oceans have been slower to cool than expected after the naturally occurring El Niño warming effect on the Pacific Ocean.
>This year is expected to be cooler than 2024, partly because of the diminished impact of El Niño, which is cyclical. The onset of a weak La Niña cooling cycle was confirmed on Thursday by the US weather agency.
>But Samantha Burgess, at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, said it would still probably rank among the three hottest on record.
>“We are now living in a very different climate than our parents and grandparents experienced,” she said, adding that it had probably been 125,000 years since temperatures had been as hot as they were today.
>Copernicus said 2024 was the warmest year on the books for all continental regions, except Antarctica and Australasia, as well as for “sizeable parts” of the world’s oceans, particularly the north Atlantic, Indian and western Pacific oceans.
>Global atmospheric water levels in 2024 reached record levels, at 5 per cent above the 1991-2020 average, fuelling “unprecedented heatwaves and heavy rainfall events, causing misery for millions of people”, Burgess said.
I still have an irrational fantasy that some goofball or startup is going to crack a viable carbon capture method that completely bails us out of this shitshow, but I know I’m delusional.