Hottest-On-Record 2024 Confirmed To Be First Calendar Year To Breach 1.5°C Climate Target, Report Says

2024 was the hottest year on record, with global temperatures exceeding 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for the first time. In fact, each year in the last decade is one of the ten warmest on record.

Year 2024 had been the warmest on record in India since 1901.

Source : PTI + climate.copernicus.eu

Hottest Year 2024: Days after the United Nations said the year 2024 was likely the hottest year on record, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) confirmed the assumption in its latest report, with global temperatures exceeding 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for the first time. The European weather agency had last month said the second-warmest November ever confirmed the anticipation that 2024 was going to be the warmest year since records began in 1850. Quoting data from the