The information was made public in advance of the U.N. COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan next week. Where nations will attempt to reach an agreement on an important increase in spending to address climate change. Winning the U.S. presidential election, the new president Donald Trump seems to have less expectations for the negotiations.
According to C3S, the average global temperature was so high between January and October that 2024 will surely be the warmest year on record. Only if deviations from normal fall sharply in the remaining months of the year, reaching zero.
C3S Director Carlo Buontempo said, “The fundamental, underpinning cause of this year’s record is climate change. The climate is warming, generally. It’s warming in all continents, in all ocean basins. So we are bound to see those records being broken.”
The earth is more than 1.5C hotter in 2024 than it was during the pre-industrial era of 1850 to1900 when people started using fossil fuels on a large scale, according to the experts.
Carbon Global warming is mostly caused by carbon dioxide emissions from burning coal, oil, and gas. Climate scientist Sonia Seneviratne of the public research university ETH Zurich said she was not shocked by the milestone and called on nations to take more aggressive action at COP29 to switch their economies away from fossil fuels that release CO2.
Seneviratne said, “The limits that were set in the Paris agreement are starting to crumble given the too-slow pace of climate action across the world.”
