For Copernicus, the monitoring body of climateclimate European, there is no longer any doubt: 2024 will be the hottest year recorded since records began weather reportweather reportand will therefore beat the previous record of 2023. But that's not all, 2024 will also be the first year to exceed the symbolic threshold of +1.5°C of warming compared to the pre-industrial level. Remember that this threshold was the one that should not be exceeded, by the end of the century, according to the commitments made during the Paris Agreement.
It should be noted that multiple organizations, which use different calculation methods, have already been announcing for months that this threshold has already been exceeded in recent years. Copernicus scientists specify that the average warming over the last 12 months now amounts to +1.62°C compared to temperatures of 1850-1900. Since its origin, “ human civilization has never experienced a climate as hot as the one we currently experience, Copernicus declares. We are at the absolute limit of being able to adapt to this hotter world ».
