It was found that 2024 was the hottest year in global history.
According to the British Guardian on the 10th (Korean time), the European Union’s (EU) climate monitoring organization Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) recently announced that the Earth’s surface temperature in 2024 will be 1.6 degrees higher than before industrialization.
This is an increase of 0.1 degrees compared to 2023, the hottest year in history, meaning that last year’s temperature broke that record and was selected as the hottest year in history.
Previously, 196 countries in the international community signed the Paris Agreement in 2015 and agreed to limit the rise in global average temperature to below 2 degrees compared to before industrialization in 1850 and to make efforts to not exceed the critical point (tipping point) of 1.5 degrees. Therefore, 2024 became the first year outside the Paris Agreement target.
However, since the average temperature target of 1.5 degrees Celsius proposed in the Paris Agreement is a figure measured over 10 years, exceeding the target even for one year does not mean that the target has been failed to be achieved.
However, the climate crisis is gradually worsening, and the view that the critical point will not be maintained in the future is gaining ground through these results.
Additionally, according to C3S data, on July 10th last year, 44% of the Earth was affected by an extreme heat wave, and July 22nd last year was the hottest day in history.
Samantha Burgess, Deputy Director of C3S, said: “It is now very likely that we will exceed the Paris Agreement’s long-term average of 1.5 degrees Celsius.” “Rising global temperatures, combined with atmospheric water vapor around the world last year, have resulted in unprecedented heat waves and heavy rainfall, causing suffering for millions of people.” “I did it,” he said.
Additionally, Dr. Friederike Otto of Imperial College London said, “We must face reality through this record. “The continued abnormal weather events over the past year, including hurricanes in the U.S., typhoons in the Philippines, and drought in the Amazon, have shown how dangerous life at 1.5 degrees Celsius is,” he said. “To prevent the situation from getting worse in 2025, we need to move away from fossil fuels and stop deforestation,” he said. He argued, “We need to know exactly what needs to be done and act accordingly, rather than coming up with the same solution.”
In addition, C3S predicted that carbon emissions last year, along with the Earth’s surface temperature, will hit an all-time high.
The media analyzed this to mean that there is still no progress at the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in December 2023. In fact, in order to maintain the 1.5 degree target, fossil fuel emissions must be reduced by 45% by 2030.
Professor Joeri Rogelzi of Imperial College London said, “Regardless of how many degrees, every slight change in temperature causes more harm to humanity and the ecosystem,” and emphasized, “There is a continued need for drastic reductions in carbon emissions.”
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