"2024, the hottest year on record" - According to researchers, CO2 emissions are the main cause of climate change
This year will be the world's hottest on record, with unusually high temperatures expected to continue into at least the first months of 2025, European Union scientists said.
The data from the EU's Climate Change Service (C3S) comes two weeks after UN climate talks resulted in a $300 billion deal to tackle climate change, a package that poorer countries described as insufficient to cover the rising costs of climate-related disasters.
C3S said data from January to November had confirmed that 2024 is now certain to be the hottest year on record and the first in which global average temperatures exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial period 1850-1900.
Extreme weather has engulfed the world in 2024, with severe droughts hitting Italy and South America, fatal floods in Nepal, Sudan and Europe, heat waves in Mexico, Mali and Saudi Arabia killing thousands and catastrophic cyclones in the US and the Philippines. Scientific studies have confirmed the traces of human-caused climate change in all these disasters. Last month ranked as the second warmest November on record after November 2023.
Carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are the main cause of climate change. Reducing emissions to net zero, as many governments have pledged, will stop global warming from worsening. However, despite these green promises, global CO2 emissions are expected to hit a record high this year.
Scientists are also monitoring whether the La Nina phenomenon, which involves cooling ocean surface temperatures, could form in 2025. This could cool global temperatures briefly, though it won't stop the long-term warming trend caused by emissions. The world is currently in neutral conditions after El Nino, La Nina's hotter counterpart, ended earlier this year.
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