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2024 Will Be the First Year to Exceed the 1.5°C Warming Threshold
The Paris Climate Agreement, established in 2015, was a historic accord in which nearly every nation committed to keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius and ideally below 1.5 degrees Celsius, but despite the global pledge , 2024 is on track not only to become the warmest year ever and it is also on track to surpass the global average temperature of 1.5 degrees Celsius. The unusually high temperatures this year are evident all over the globe, like Japan’s Mount Fuji, For the first time in 130 years, went through the entire month of October without a single flake of snow. Another unusual event that occurred for the first time in history was locals in Saudi Arabia’s Al-Jawf region awoke to a blanket of fresh snow atop its brown, arid landscape following intense rain and hail. According to the UAE’s National Center of Meteorology (NCM) the anomalous occurrence was also attributed to the low-pressure system brewing in the Arabian Sea.
After 10 months of 2024 it is now virtually certain that 2024 will be the warmest year on record and the first year of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above per industrial levels according to the ERA5 dataset which is a is a global climate reanalysis dataset produced by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). It provides detailed information on atmospheric, land, and…
