2024 was Earth’s hottest year ever, major climate threshold breached: Report

Jan 10, 2025 08:55 AM IST

2024 was Earth’s hottest year ever, major climate threshold breached: Report

Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, passing a major climate threshold, reported news agency Associated Press on Friday, citing weather monitoring agencies.

2024 was Earth’s hottest year ever, major climate threshold breached: Report(Pixabay/representative)

The news comes in the wake of deadly wildfires in the Californian city of Las Vegas, home to America’s film industry ‘Hollywood’.

“This is a warning light going off on the Earth’s dashboard that immediate attention is needed,” the AP report quoted University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd as saying, adding, ”Hurricane Helene, floods in Spain and the weather whiplash fueling wildfires in California are symptoms of this unfortunate climate gear shift. We still have a few gears to go.”

2024, Earth’s hottest year on record

Last year’s global average temperature easily passed 2023’s record heat and kept going even higher, surpassing the long-term warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit ) since the late 1800s that was called for by the 2015 Paris climate pact, according to the European Commission’s Copernicus Climate Service, the United Kingdom’s Meteorology Office and Japan’s weather agency.

Global temperatures are soaring “beyond what modern humans have ever experienced”, the EU agency said Friday.

However, this still does not mean the internationally-agreed 1.5C warming threshold has been permanently breached, but the Copernicus Climate Change Service said it was drawing dangerously near, an AFP report mentioned.

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