Fresh climate change warning ahead of COP29, 2024 will be hottest year on record
FirstpostBarely days ahead of UN COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service has released a data in which it pointed out that the average global temperature from January to October had been so high that 2024 was sure to be the world’s hottest year The scientists said 2024 will also be the first year in which the planet is more than 1.5C hotter than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale. This year is “virtually certain” to eclipse 2023 as the world’s warmest since records began, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday. “The fundamental, underpinning cause of this year’s record is climate change,” C3S Director Carlo Buontempo told Reuters. The scientists said 2024 will also be the first year in which the planet is more than 1.5C hotter than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale.