2024…the hottest year ever

A report published today stated that 2024 was the first year in which average temperatures were above the climatic standard of 1.5 degrees Celsius since records began, making it also the hottest year on record, according to data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. , which in recent months provided similar preliminary estimates.

Copernicus said that the average temperature of the planet during the year 2024 was 1.6 degrees Celsius higher than it was in the period from 1850 to 1900, which is the “pre-industrial period” before humans began burning fossil fuels that emit carbon dioxide on a large scale. wide.

Last year was the hottest in the world since records began, and each of the past ten years (2015-2024) was among the ten warmest years on record.