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"This year will be the world’s hottest since records began, with
extraordinarily high temperatures expected to persist into at least the first
few months of 2025.
The data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)
comes two weeks after UN climate talks yielded a $US300-billion ($A469 billion)
deal to tackle climate change, a package poorer countries blasted as
insufficient to cover the soaring cost of climate-related disasters.
C3S said data from January to November had confirmed 2024 is now certain to be
the hottest year on record, and – and exceed the warming limit that countries
had pledged to try and avoid in the landmark Paris Agreement negotiated in
2015.
It’s the first year in which average global temperatures exceed 1.5 degrees
Celsius above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period.
The previous hottest year on record was 2023.
Extreme weather swept around the world in 2024, with severe drought hitting
Italy and South America, fatal floods in Nepal, Sudan and Europe, heatwaves in
Mexico, Mali and Saudi Arabia that killed thousands, and disastrous cyclones in
the US and the Philippines.
Scientific studies have confirmed the fingerprints of human-caused climate
change on all of these disasters.
Last month ranked as the second-warmest November on record after November 2023.
“We’re still in near-record-high territory for global temperatures, and that’s
likely to stay at least for the next few months,” Copernicus climate researcher
Julien Nicolas told
Reuters.
Carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are the main cause of
climate change.
Cutting emissions to net zero – as many governments have pledged to eventually
do – will stop global warming from getting worse. Yet despite these green
pledges, global CO₂ emissions are set to hit a record high this year."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
