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This year ‘virtually certain’ to be hottest on record, finds EU space programme

 Guardian 7th Nov 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/07/this-year-virtually-certain-to-be-hottest-on-record-finds-eu-space-programme

 It is “virtually certain” that 2024 will be the hottest year on
record, the European Union’s space programme has found. The prognosis
comes the week before diplomats meet at the Cop29 climate summit and a day
after a majority of voters in the US, the biggest historical polluter of
planet-heating gas, chose to make Donald Trump president.

Trump has described climate change as a “hoax” and promised to roll back policies
to clean up the economy. The report found 2024 is likely to be the first
year more than 1.5C (2.7F) hotter than before the Industrial Revolution, a
level of warming that has alarmed scientists. “This marks a new milestone
in global temperature records and should serve as a catalyst to raise
ambition for the upcoming climate change conference,” said Dr Samantha
Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service.

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