2024 Was the First Year Above 1.5C of Global Warming, Scientists Say (msn.com) 47
Scientists said the world just reached a grim milestone: the first full year where global temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial times. Reuters reports: The milestone was confirmed by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), which said climate change is pushing the planet's temperature to levels never before experienced by modern humans. "The trajectory is just incredible," C3S director Carlo Buontempo told Reuters, describing how every month in 2024 was the warmest or second-warmest for that month since records began.
The planet's average temperature in 2024 was 1.6 degrees Celsius higher than in 1850-1900, the "pre-industrial period" before humans began burning CO2-emitting fossil fuels on a large scale, C3S said. Last year was the world's hottest since records began, and each of the past ten years was among the ten warmest on record. Britain's Met Office confirmed 2024's likely breach of 1.5C, while estimating a slightly lower average temperature of 1.53C for the year. U.S. scientists will also publish their 2024 climate data on Friday.
Governments promised under the 2015 Paris Agreement to try to prevent average temperatures exceeding 1.5C, to avoid more severe and costly climate disasters. The first year above 1.5C does not breach that target, which measures the longer-term average temperature. Buontempo said rising greenhouse gas emissions meant the world was on track to soon also blow past the Paris goal - but that it was not too late for countries to rapidly cut emissions to avoid warming rising further to disastrous levels. "It's not a done deal. We have the power to change the trajectory from now on," Buontempo said.
The planet's average temperature in 2024 was 1.6 degrees Celsius higher than in 1850-1900, the "pre-industrial period" before humans began burning CO2-emitting fossil fuels on a large scale, C3S said. Last year was the world's hottest since records began, and each of the past ten years was among the ten warmest on record. Britain's Met Office confirmed 2024's likely breach of 1.5C, while estimating a slightly lower average temperature of 1.53C for the year. U.S. scientists will also publish their 2024 climate data on Friday.
Governments promised under the 2015 Paris Agreement to try to prevent average temperatures exceeding 1.5C, to avoid more severe and costly climate disasters. The first year above 1.5C does not breach that target, which measures the longer-term average temperature. Buontempo said rising greenhouse gas emissions meant the world was on track to soon also blow past the Paris goal - but that it was not too late for countries to rapidly cut emissions to avoid warming rising further to disastrous levels. "It's not a done deal. We have the power to change the trajectory from now on," Buontempo said.
Who cares (Score:4, Insightful)
We're buying Greenland. We don't need the continental US low lying lands anyway we can live on Greenland which is the size of 13 Floridas without alligators, pythons, and Florida mans.
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And you think you can, say, do reasonable farming on Greenland? Well, you will be able to. In 10'000 years or so. It is a bit more than just a question of temperature.
Ah, human stupidity. Alive and thriving. Thanks for reminding me.
Incidentally, after what the convicted criminal and certified moron just said, there is zero chance of Greenland being for sale in the next few decades.
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Incidentally, after what the convicted criminal and certified moron just said, there is zero chance of Greenland being for sale in the next few decades.
That isn't true. The plan I've seen rumored around is to offer each of Greenland's 57,000 citizens $1 million each. That's an offer of $1 million cash to every person. A family of 4 would get $4 million cash. Sorry but there's no way a majority of Greenlanders would turn down $1 million in cash. That would cost the US $57 billion. And throw in another $3 billion to build some recreation centers, roads, or something. So that's $60 billion. That's a mere 1% of our federal budget (annual federal budget is $6,5
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See that's where trump messed up. Should've just got the dead to vote for him instead. Much cheaper!
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Things are not at all that clear. Also, such an offer may well be criminal to accept.
Pray to the great God Mammon all you like, but reality is not that simple.
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Sounds like democracy to me?
As for being criminal for Greenlanders to sell Greenland to the US, I'm sure the US Supreme Court would disagree with you.
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The "Greenlanders" can not sell Greenland to the USA.
Greenland is part of Denmark. Only Denmark can sell it.
And a Greenlander with literally free healthcare in a nation with multiple parties where he actually can vote, is not selling his land for a million. To be unable to vote properly, a broken leg will cost 1/4 of a million and as soon as something bad happens with his house: the insurance has an excuse not to pay.
What is next, the new owners remove the internet from a country that has the fastest and on
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such an offer may well be criminal to accept.
Based on what? My understanding is that the Danish government wouldn't oppose the Greenlanders holding a referendum and choosing to go their own way.
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offer each of Greenland's 57,000 citizens $1 million each.
The Economist has an article [economist.com] showing that Greenland would be a bargain even at several times that price.
Greenland has more rare earth deposits than anywhere else but China. Huge stocks of fish in territorial waters. Strategic location. Etc.
Greenlanders will likely accept the deal. That's a lot of money for a struggling family, and there are advantages to American citizenship.
The only way to stop it is to prohibit a referendum.
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They probably can't have a referendum on giving up sovereignty of their country. Most places prohibit it, to stop richer countries doing this kind of thing.
The EU would certainly never allow it.
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I don't see why not. There was a referendum in Gibraltar about becoming part of Spain, which the EU seemed happy with. Spain wasn't very happy with the result, but that's a different matter.
Now, the idea of paying people to vote a particular way in a referendum, that might be an issue - but not the referendum itself.
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There was an advisory referendum with a certain outcome, and the EU stood to gain.
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Are you paying for all the moving vans?
1849 (Score:2)
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So the temperature was higher in 1849. People must have been smoking too much rope back then.
Congratulations on posting the first relevant comment.
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I thought this was a joke but other people are taking it seriously.
You aren't getting Greenland, for the record.
Meanwhile in Los Angeles (Score:1)
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No amount of evidence is going to convince an idiot in an idiot-bubble.
It's all a conspiracy! Trump said so on "Truth Social", which is doublespeak for "Antisocial Misinformation".
What a dystopia we live in.
Re: Meanwhile in Los Angeles (Score:2)
"Trump is badman evil guy, I heard it on social media and the TV agrees."
Your idiot bubble is tired and played out. Get a new one.
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By the way, the numbers in TFS are collected by exactly the same ideologically aligned bunch of sick people so it's hard not to doubt the methodology they used. It would take hours for common citizens to validate the numbers by themselves. In short , those numbers are easily manipulable without anybody noticing and the ones who would be able to validate them and find discrepancies would simply be called oil shills and cancelled.
Oooh, and now a comment that's not only on topic but right-headed...
What next?
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Since we stopped trying to convince climate sceptics that change is real, they have been coming up with increasingly silly conspiracy theories. I see we have reached "cut the firefighting budget to push their agenda", as if it's going to have any meaningful impact.
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Not from US but I heard on the news that it's normal not to have water during those fires because they cut off the power to avoid lighting up more fires. Seriously? No emergency autonomous systems for the water utility?
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First year since when?
Since the last interglacial period, which was 125,000 years ago.
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This is simply incorrect. According to Copernicus' own press release, the time period in question is 1979-2024:
https://climate.copernicus.eu/... [copernicus.eu]
This is what "first full year on record" refers to.
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Usually, climate is defined as the average weather over a 30 year period.
That's the difference in average weather compared to a certain reference period of 30 years. Currently, the time period from 1980-2010 is widely used as reference.
That's a completely different question, and it has nothing to do with
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Ah yes, facts are ideological propaganda. The only truth is political allegiance.
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Provide the facts then. What is the time period referenced by "first full year on record"?
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Since humans started pumping massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.
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And of course, the negative effects of global warming start before 1.5 degrees, which is just a number picked for the Paris Agreement.
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The actual time period for which "first year" applies, however, is only betwen 1979 and 2024, i.e., a 45-year interval. This is clearly stated in Copernicus' own press release, upon which the reporting in the global press is based:
https://climate.copernicus.eu/... [copernicus.eu]
The reference period for the average now exceeded by 1.5 degrees has been set as 1991-2020.
The underlying dataset, starting 1979, upon which many climate-related news stories have been based over the last few years is called "ERA5". Interestingly,
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According to NASA, the raising of global temperature has occurred since at least 1880, The largest part has occurred since 1975. But I just repeated the article and summary above, that states the following:
The planet's average temperature in 2024 was 1.6 degrees Celsius higher than in 1850-1900, the "pre-industrial period" before humans began burning CO2-emitting fossil fuels on a large scale, C3S said.
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Which arbitrary point in history are we stopping our comparison for ideological propaganda purposes this time?
And now the first deeply relevant, very much to the point comment. Thanks!
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Which arbitrary point in history are we stopping our comparison for ideological propaganda purposes this time?
I pick the arbitrary point where civilization started and humans started to become dependent on the planet's ecosystem. Call me a racist but I don't give a fuck about dinosaurs. They are nothing but dumb scaley and feathered cannibals. Make the human race great again. Homosapien lives matter.
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