November this year was the 16th month out of the last 17 when the average global temperature exceeded 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial times, and also confirmed scientists' predictions that 2024 will be the warmest year on record.
Euronews writes about it with reference to the observations of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
Specialists say that the global temperature was 14.1°C on average. This is 0.73°C above the November 1991-2020 average. Overall, November this year was 1.62°C above pre-industrial levels. It marked the 16th consecutive month in which the global average temperature exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
“With Copernicus data from the penultimate month of the year, we can say with almost 100 percent confidence that 2024 will be the warmest year on record and the first calendar year with temperatures above 1.5°C,” said C3S deputy director Samantha Burgess.
But despite such figures, she argues that this does not mean a breach of the Paris Agreement, but emphasizes the urgency of ambitious climate action.
The planet is becoming dangerously overheated
At this point, the Climate Change Service is virtually certain: even excluding December temperatures, 2024 will be the warmest year on record. The record was practically confirmed back in October.
Recall that last month at the COP29 summit in Baku, the report of scientists of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned that the world is becoming dangerously overheated. They stated that global temperatures have already risen 1.3°C above the pre-industrial average.
Earlier, EcoPolitic told us that because of global warming in Spain introduced “climate” vacations. We also wrote about the fact that scientists predict that by the end of the century mortality may quadruple compared to current values and amount to about 30 million people a year, even if measures to reduce emissions are introduced.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, at the COP29 climate summit scientists released the results of a study showing that the world will be able to limit global warming at 1.5°C only if it reaches zero CO2 emissions by the end of the 2030s instead of 2050, as previously thought.
