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Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 months, data show

 The world has baked for 12 consecutive months in temperatures 1.5C (2.7F)
greater than their average before the fossil fuel era, new data shows.
Temperatures between July 2023 and June 2024 were the highest on record,
scientists found, creating a year-long stretch in which the Earth was 1.64C
hotter than in preindustrial times.

The findings do not mean world leaders
have already failed to honour their promises to stop the planet heating
1.5C by the end of the century – a target that is measured in decadal
averages rather than single years – but that scorching heat will have
exposed more people to violent weather.

A sustained rise in temperatures
above this level also increases the risk of uncertain but catastrophic
tipping points. Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change
Service, which analysed the data, said the results were not a statistical
oddity but a “large and continuing shift” in the climate.

 Guardian 8th July 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/08/temperatures-1-point-5c-above-pre-industrial-era-average-for-12-months-data-shows

July 10, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change