2024 will be the hottest year on record, EU scientists say
(VOVWORLD) - This year will be the world's warmest since records began, with extraordinarily high temperatures expected to persist into at least the first few months of 2025, European Union scientists said on Monday.
 A tourist uses a fountain to cool off amid a heatwave, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 13, 2024. (REUTERS/Amel Emric/File Photo) |
The EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said data from January to November had confirmed 2024 is now certain to be the hottest year on record, and the first in which average global temperatures exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period. The previous hottest year on record was 2023.
Extreme weather has 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.