The year 2024 will be the hottest on record and the first with average temperatures above 1.5 degrees Celsius, the European climate agency Copernicus said on Monday.
Additionally, November 2024 became the second warmest (after November 2023), with an average surface air temperature of 14.10 °C – which was 0.73 °C higher than the average temperature for the month over 1991–2020.
This month marked another milestone in global warming, with temperatures recorded 1.62 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
The agency said it became the 16th month in the last 17 months where global temperatures have crossed the critical threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
According to the India Meteorological Department, India had the second warmest November since 1901, with an average maximum temperature of 29.37 degrees Celsius, which is 0.62 degrees above normal.
For the year so far (January to November), the global average temperature anomaly is 0.72 °C warmer than the 1991–2020 average, the highest on record for this period and 0.14 °C warmer than the same period in 2023. Is.
The European Climate Agency said it is almost certain that 2024 will be the hottest year on record, with annual temperatures exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. 2023, the hottest year ever, was 1.48 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
The mean sea surface temperature (SST) for November 2024 was also the second highest on record for the month at 20.58 degrees Celsius, only 0.13 degrees Celsius lower than the record for November 2023.
While the equatorial eastern and central Pacific have moved toward neutral or La Niña conditions, sea surface temperatures remain abnormally high in many oceanic regions, Copernicus said.
“With Copernicus data from the last month of the year, we can now confirm with virtual certainty that 2024 will be the warmest year on record and the first calendar year,” said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). year above 1.5 °C. This does not mean the Paris Agreement is violated, but it does underline the urgent need for ambitious climate action. The Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015, aims to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Permanent breach of the 1.5 °C limit refers to long-term warming due to rapidly increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases over a 20 or 30-year period, with the Earth’s global surface temperature already about 1.3 °C higher than the 1850–1900 average. Has increased. – Mainly carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere.
This warming is believed to be the reason behind record droughts, wildfires and floods around the world.
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