The European Climate Agency stated on Tuesday that Earth broke all previous records for yearly heat, flirted with the global warming threshold, and displayed more symptoms of a feverish planet last year.
Copernicus, a European climate organization, was among the first teams of science agencies to quantify the extreme warmth of 2023. The agency reported that the year was 1.48 degrees Celsius (2.66 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than pre-industrial periods. That is just slightly less than the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold set in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement by the international community in an attempt to prevent the worst effects of global warming.
Additionally, according to Copernicus Deputy Director Samantha Burgess, January 2024 is expected to be so warm that it will surpass the 1.5-degree barrier for the first time in 12 months. According to scientific consensus, a technical breach of the threshold would require an average global warming of 1.5 degrees over two or three decades.
According to Burgess, “choices must be made, and lives are at risk, so the 1.5-degree goal has to be kept alive.” “And these decisions affect our children and our grandchildren, not you and me.”
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