EU climate monitor warns global temperature rise breached 1.5 degrees Celsius for first time in 2024

Jan. 10 (UPI) -- The average global surface temperature for 2024 exceeded the 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels threshold set by the Paris Agreement for the first time and was the warmest year on record, European Union climate-tracking scientists said Friday.

The 15.1 degrees Celsius average temperature recorded over the 12 months to Dec. 31 was 1.6 degrees Celsius above the estimated temperature in the 1850-1900 "pre-industrial" era, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said in a news release that linked the rise to more dangerous heat waves, wildfires, flooding and increasingly ferocious storms.

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