Extreme heat in 2024 - Climate change added 41 hot days this year
The world experienced an average of 41 more days of dangerous heat in 2024 due to human-caused warming, a new analysis has found.
The report from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) and Climate Central reviews a year of extreme weather and warns that every country must prepare for increasing climate risks to minimize deaths and damage in 2025 and beyond.
It also states that a much faster transition away from fossil fuels is needed to "avoid a future of relentless heat waves, droughts, fires, storms and floods".
The report also found that climate change intensified 26 of the 29 weather events studied, which killed at least 3,700 people and displaced millions.
This year is set to be the hottest on record, with the first six months seeing record temperatures, with the world's hottest day recorded on July 22.
Globally, there were 41 extra days of dangerous heat in 2024 due to human-caused warming, scientists found. These days represent the 10 percent of warmest temperatures from 1991-2020 for countries around the world.
The result highlights how climate change is exposing millions more people to dangerous temperatures for longer periods of the year as fossil fuel emissions warm the climate. Unless the world moves quickly away from oil, gas and coal, the number of dangerously hot days will continue to increase each year and threaten public health, scientists say.
The heat also fueled droughts, wildfires, storms and heavy rainfall, causing flooding throughout the year. The team of scientists studied 29 of these events and found clear evidence of climate change in 26 of them. Flooding in Sudan, Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad was the deadliest event studied by the group, with at least 2,000 people killed and millions displaced.
If warming reaches 2°C, which could happen as early as the 2040s or 2050s, the regions could experience similar periods of heavy rainfall each year, the study found.
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