ROME (ITALPRESS) – 2024 will almost certainly be the warmest year on record and the first above 1.5°C. This is according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). “After 10 months from the start of 2024, it is now virtually certain that this will be the warmest year on record and the first year with more than 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels, according to the ERA5 dataset,” says Samantha Burgess, Deputy Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). This marks a new milestone in global temperature records and should serve as a catalyst for raising the ambitions of the upcoming Climate Change Conference, COP29. “Specifically, Copernicus reports that “the global average temperature over the past 12 months (November 2023 – October 2024) has been 0.74°C above the average between 1991 and 2020 and 1.62°C above the pre-industrial average between 1850 and 1900. The average global temperature anomaly for the first 10 months of 2024 (January to October) is 0.71°C above the average between 1991 and 2020, the highest ever recorded for this period and 0.16°C warmer than the same period in 2023. It is now virtually certain that 2024 will be the warmest year on record.” According to the study, “the average temperature anomaly for the remainder of 2024 would have to drop to almost zero for 2024 not to be the warmest year. Given that 2023 was 1.48°C above the pre-industrial level according to ERA5, it is also virtually certain that the annual temperature for 2024 according to ERA5 will be more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level, and probably more than 1.55°C.”
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