Highest recorded temperatures supercharged extreme weather – with worse to come, EU data shows

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24110139

Summary

In 2024, global temperatures rose 1.6°C above preindustrial levels, surpassing the 1.5°C Paris Agreement threshold for the first time.

The rise, driven by fossil fuel emissions and intensified by El Niño, caused extreme weather, record heatwaves, and widespread human suffering.

Experts warn the planet is on track for catastrophic 2.7°C heating by 2100 unless emissions drop 45% by 2030.

Despite renewable energy advances, 2024 saw record carbon emissions.

  • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
    7·
    12 hours ago

    The globe is heating, and the data is not lying. But I wish people would not try to shoehorn this unique el nino year weather as a precursor for all future non el nino years. At least this article mentions that to an extent but it is definitely trying to capitalize on the fear the headline implies.

    Since 2024 was an el nino year the weather was much less predictable. The weather patterns for the entire globe were slightly off, and it’s traditionally warmer and wetter then average globally.

    Basically I feel like what’s going to happen is next year it will be much less hot and all the climate deniers are going to look at the headlines like this from last year and hold snowballs and say how crazy we are are for thinking this is real. Which will convince some voters and more anti-climate policies will be put in place.

    • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
      3·
      13 hours ago

      2015 was last elnino (recent one ended in 2023), and all temperatures since 2015 were higher than 2015. 2023 seems to have been a step up, and 2024 follows the 2016 record (held until 2023) pattern. CO2 atmopheric increases this last year were well above the record past 10 year average.

      next year it will be much less hot and all the climate deniers are going to look at the headlines like this from last year and hold snowballs and say how crazy we are are for thinking this is real.

      A bold call there Cotton. There is no case for an expected downtrend in global temperatures. A 1.4C year is not a rally cry for everything is fine. A polar vortex, with snowballs, in winter does not mean a cooler global year.