{"id":9611,"date":"2024-11-08T11:46:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/08\/2024-on-track-to-be-first-year-to-exceed-the-1-5c-warming-threshold\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T11:46:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:46:15","slug":"2024-on-track-to-be-first-year-to-exceed-the-1-5c-warming-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/08\/2024-on-track-to-be-first-year-to-exceed-the-1-5c-warming-threshold\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 on track to be first year to exceed the 1.5C warming threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year is “virtually certain” to eclipse 2023 as the world’s warmest since records began, likely averaging 1.55C to above pre-industrial levels, the EU earth observation agency said.<\/p>\n

The record heat has primarily been fuelled by climate change, Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said, turbo-charging dangerous weather like deadly flooding in Spain<\/strong>, ferocious hurricanes Helene and Milton in the US and record wildfires in Peru.<\/p>\n

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It would make 2024 the first year that temperatures averaged at 1.5C warmer than levels before humans started burning fossil fuels at scale.<\/p>\n

It surpasses last year’s record of 1.48C above the global pre-industrial average. Figures like that 1.48C, smooth out extremes, which is why it might not have felt hot in every corner of the globe.<\/p>\n

This year’s expected breach of that 1.5C goal, enshrined in the Paris climate agreement, is likely temporary rather than a permanent breach, and was also fuelled by the warming El Nino weather phenomenon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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But it is a sign of what’s to come, C3S warned.<\/p>\n

The data lands as analysts warn the re-election of Donald Trump<\/strong> could slow global efforts to tackle climate change, just as a critical 2030 deadline to slash emissions approaches.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump’s campaign team indicated he would pull the US<\/strong> out of the Paris Agreement again, dampening expectations for the UN COP29 climate summit starting in Baku next week.<\/p>\n

Almost 200 countries will meet to thrash out the collective next steps towards tackling climate change, focusing on funding climate measures in developing nations, a concept Mr Trump has previously criticised.<\/p>\n

Last year at COP28 in Dubai, countries agreed to “transition away from fossil fuels”, the number one cause of climate change.<\/p>\n

But progress has been marginal<\/strong>, Sky News analysis has found, and Mr Trump has pledged to “drill, baby, drill” in the US, the world’s largest oil producer.<\/p>\n

“The fundamental, underpinning cause of this year’s record is climate change,” C3S director Carlo Buontempo said.<\/p>\n

“The climate is warming, generally. It’s warming in all continents, in all ocean basins. So we are bound to see those records being broken.”<\/p>\n

Carbon dioxide emissions from burning coal, oil and gas are the main cause of global warming.<\/p>\n

Sonia Seneviratne, a climate scientist at public research university ETH Zurich, said she the milestone is not surprising, and urged governments at COP29 to speed up efforts to ditch planet-heating fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

“The limits that were set in the Paris agreement are starting to crumble given the too-slow pace of climate action
across the world,” Seneviratne said.<\/p>\n

Mr Buontempo now expects the world to exceed the Paris goal permanently around 2030.<\/p>\n

“It’s basically around the corner now,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n

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