October 2024 was the second warmest month
2024 is set to be announced as the 'hottest on record' as temperatures reached more than 1.5C above pre-industrial times for the first time.
This means that at least temporarily, the world has breached a key threshold in the fight against dangerous climate change, the PA News Agency reports. The Paris climate agreement committed countries to limit temperature rises to “well below” 2C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to keep them to 1.5C, beyond which the most devastating impacts of storms, floods, droughts, heatwaves, nature loss and rising seas are expected.
Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service said: “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 1.5C above pre-industrial levels according to the ERA5 dataset. Responding to the figures, Mike Childs, head of science, policy and research at Friends of the Earth, said: “Our ailing planet is sending us every signal that it is in crisis – the latest being the deadly floods in Spain which have claimed the lives of so many and wreaked colossal damage.
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