It is “virtually certain” that 2024 will be the first year to be more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than in the preindustrial era, before heat-trapping fossil fuels began accumulating in the atmosphere, the European Union’s Copernicus #Climate Change Service (C3S) announced today.
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2024 Will Be the First Year to Exceed the 1.5-Degree-Celsius Warming Threshold
This year won’t just be the hottest on record—it could be the first to surpass the 1.5-degree-Celsius threshold laid out in the Paris climate accordAndrea Thompson (Scientific American)
