1.6 Degrees

The only summary of 2024 that matters

According to the United Nations, 2024 will be the hottest year on record, when that organization releases official numbers in January. It also says that each of the 10 hottest years has come in the last decade.

Update: on January 10, the World Meteorological Organization confirmed that 2024 averaged 1.55 degrees above pre-industrial.

How hot was it? Let’s ask the Copernicus Climate Change Service, which measures such things on behalf of the European Union. According to them:

“November 2024 was 1.62°C above the pre-industrial level and was the 16th month in a 17-month period for which the global-average surface air temperature exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.”

This was actually only the second hottest November on record, according to C3S November, 2023 measured 1.75 degrees above pre-industrial.

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