Global temperatures breached critical 1.5°C warming threshold for first time over 12 month period

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The global average temperature in January 2024 was 1.6°C above pre-industrial levels for the month, meaning the planet has breached the 1.5°C benchmark for the past 12 months.

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00:00 For the first time, the global temperature pushed past the internationally agreed-upon

00:06 1.5 degree Celsius warming threshold for an entire year.

00:10 The new climate change report by Copernicus said that January 2024 was the hottest ever

00:17 January recorded.

00:18 The findings are based on atmospheric, land and oceanic climate variables data.

00:25 The report found an average surface air temperature of 13.14 degrees Celsius in January 2024,

00:32 which was above the average for the month of January from 1991 to 2020, and 0.12 degrees

00:39 Celsius above the temperature of the previous warmest January in 2020.

00:45 The globe has broken heat records each month since last June.

00:49 Climate scientists blame a combination of human-caused warming from the burning of fossil

00:55 fuels and the El Niño climate pattern.

00:57 [SWOOSH]

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