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Scientists: 2024 will be the hottest year on record

2024-11-07 14:50:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Scientists: 2024 will be the hottest year on record

2024 will "certainly" overtake 2023 as the world's hottest year on record, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday.

The data was released ahead of next week's UN climate summit in Azerbaijan, where countries will try to agree a big increase in funding to fight climate change.

C3S said that from January to October, the average global temperature was so high that 2024 will be a hot year for the world - if the temperature anomaly in the remaining months of the year does not fall below zero.

"The essential, main cause of this year's record is exactly climate change," C3S director Carlo Buontempo told Reuters.

"The climate is warming in general. It is warming on all continents, in all ocean basins. Therefore, it is expected that these records will continue to be broken", he said.

Scientists said 2024 will also be the first year in which the planet is 1.5 degrees warmer than pre-industrial times, 1850-1900, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale.

Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal, fuels and gas are the main causes of global warming.

Any increase in temperature promotes extreme weather. In October, hundreds of people lost their lives as a result of catastrophic flooding in Spain. Record fires hit Peru, while floods in Bangladesh destroyed more than 1 million tons of rice, sending prices skyrocketing.

In the US, meanwhile, Hurricane Milton became more ferocious as a result of man-made climate change.

C3S began keeping records in the 1940s, which are verified with temperature records dating back to the 1850s./ Rel





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