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According to scientists, this year was a warning that the planet is getting dangerously close to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warming limit compared to the pre-industrial average.
People worldwide suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year. This was due to human-caused climate change, says a group of scientists. They also said that climate change will worsen throughout 2024.
The analysis from World Weather Attribution and Climate Central researchers comes at the end of a year that shattered climate record after climate record as heat across the globe. This has made 2024 likely to be its hottest ever measured. This year, Earth experienced some of the hottest days ever measured and its hottest-yet summer.
To do its heat analysis, the team of volunteer international scientists compared daily temperatures around the globe in 2024 to the temperatures that would have been expected in a scenario without climate change. The results are not yet peer-reviewed, but researchers use peer-reviewed methods. Some areas saw 150 days or more of extreme heat due to climate change.
According to scientists, this year was a warning that the planet is getting dangerously close to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warming limit compared to the pre-industrial average.
The researchers closely examined 29 extreme weather events this year that killed at least 3,700 people and displaced millions, and found that 26 of them had clear links to climate change.
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However, the researchers said most of their studies found that climate change played a bigger role than that phenomenon in fuelling 2024’s events. Warm ocean waters and warmer air fuelled more destructive storms, according to the researchers, while temperatures led to many record-breaking downpours.
