{"id":5779,"date":"2024-11-07T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/07\/2024-on-track-to-be-first-year-to-exceed-the-1-5c-warming-threshold\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T12:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T12:00:33","slug":"2024-on-track-to-be-first-year-to-exceed-the-1-5c-warming-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/07\/2024-on-track-to-be-first-year-to-exceed-the-1-5c-warming-threshold\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 on track to be first year to exceed the 1.5C warming threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year is \u201cvirtually certain\u201d to eclipse 2023 as the world\u2019s warmest since records began, likely averaging 1.55C to above pre-industrial levels, the EU earth observation agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The record heat has primarily been fuelled by climate change, Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said, turbo-charging dangerous weather like <strong>deadly flooding in Spain<\/strong>, ferocious hurricanes Helene and Milton in the US and record wildfires in Peru.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>It would make 2024 the first year that temperatures averaged at 1.5C warmer than levels before humans started burning fossil fuels at scale.<\/p>\n<p>It surpasses last year\u2019s record of 1.48C above the global pre-industrial average. Figures like that 1.48C, smooth out extremes, which is why it might not have felt hot in every corner of the globe.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s expected breach of that 1.5C goal, enshrined in the Paris climate agreement, is likely temporary rather than a permanent breach, and was also fuelled by the warming <strong>El Nino weather phenomenon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>But it is a sign of what\u2019s to come, C3S warned.<\/p>\n<p>The data lands as analysts warn the re-election of <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> could slow global efforts to tackle climate change, just as a critical 2030 deadline to slash emissions approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump\u2019s campaign team indicated he would pull the <strong>US<\/strong> out of the Paris Agreement again, dampening expectations for the UN COP29 climate summit starting in Baku next week.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 200 countries will meet to thrash out the collective next steps towards tackling climate change, focusing on funding climate measures in developing nations, a concept Mr Trump has previously criticised.<\/p>\n<p>Last year at COP28 in Dubai, countries agreed to \u201ctransition away from fossil fuels\u201d, the number one cause of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>But <strong>progress has been marginal<\/strong>, Sky News analysis has found, and Mr Trump has pledged to \u201cdrill, baby, drill\u201d in the US, the world\u2019s largest oil producer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fundamental, underpinning cause of this year\u2019s record is climate change,\u201d C3S director Carlo Buontempo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe climate is warming, generally. It\u2019s warming in all continents, in all ocean basins. So we are bound to see those records being broken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carbon dioxide emissions from burning coal, oil and gas are the main cause of global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Sonia Seneviratne, a climate scientist at public research university ETH Zurich, said she the milestone is not surprising, and urged governments at COP29 to speed up efforts to ditch planet-heating fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe limits that were set in the Paris agreement are starting to crumble given the too-slow pace of climate action<br \/>across the world,\u201d Seneviratne said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Buontempo now expects the world to exceed the Paris goal permanently around 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s basically around the corner now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year is \u201cvirtually certain\u201d to eclipse 2023 as the world\u2019s warmest since records began,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}