Temperature records continue. According to the EU's Copernicus climate change service, January this year was the hottest on record: the temperature was 1.7°C higher than the pre-industrial average for the month, UNN reports, citing New Scientist.
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As indicated, this means that there was a 12-month period during which the global average surface temperature was more than 1.5°C above the average temperature from 1850 to 1900, a period commonly referred to as the pre-industrial datum.
"2024 is off to another record-breaking month," said Samantha Burgess of the Copernicus Climate Change Service. - "Rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions is the only way to stop global temperatures from rising.
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At the Paris Climate Summit in 2015, countries pledged to try to stop the global temperature from rising by more than 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels. Climate scientists will not consider this limit breached until the long-term average global temperature remains above this level for a number of years.
According to Richard Betts of the Met Office, the UK's national weather service, the long-term average is currently 1.25°C higher than in pre-industrial times. But as carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, it seems clear that the 1.5°C limit will soon be breached, probably around 2030, the publication writes.