2024 will be world’s hottest on record, EU scientists say

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2024 is ‘virtually certain’ to eclipse 2023 as the world’s warmest since records began.  Full story: https://www.rappler.com/environment/2024-hottest-year-on-record-european-union-scientists-say/

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00:002024 is virtually certain to eclipse 2023 as the world's warmest since records began.

00:08The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, or C3S, reports in January to October,

00:14the average global temperature had been so high that 2024 was sure to be the world's

00:18hottest year.

00:20The scientists say 2024 will also be the first year in which the planet is more than 1.5

00:25degrees Celsius hotter than in 1850-1900 when humans began burning fossil fuels on

00:31an industrial scale.

00:32The data is released ahead of the United Nations' COP 29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, where

00:38countries will try to agree to a huge increase in funding to tackle climate change.

00:43Countries agreed in the 2015 Paris Agreement to try to prevent global warming surpassing

00:481.5 degrees Celsius to avoid its worst consequences.

00:52Scientists now expect the world to breach that threshold around 2030.

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