This year is set to be the hottest on record – but scientists say there’s still time to limit temperature rise and harm from climate impacts Emergency units clean the streets of Valencia after heavy rains and flooding brought by the DANA phenomenon in Valencia, Spain on November 15, 2024. (Photo: Handout / Latin America News Agency via Reuters Connect) At the end of the first year in which global average temperatures are almost certain to top the key threshold of 1.5C above pre-industrial times, scientists have sounded the alarm about the extremes of climate and weather we’re already experiencing – and are warning things could get even more serious. At the same time, they say it’s not too late both to limit the damage by phasing out planet-heating fossil fuels and doing more to protect communities from the dangers of worsening heatwaves, droughts, floods and storms. After Cyclone Chido , France accused of neglecting climate threat to “fragile” Mayotte In a report outlining their findings for 2024, researchers collaborating with the World Weather Attribution (WWA) and Climate Central projects said climate change had intensified 26 of the 29 weather events they studied during the year. Those disasters killed at least 3,700 people and displaced millions – but are only a small sample of what was experienced on the frontlines of a warming world. They included severe floods in eastern Spain, hurricanes in the US, drought in South America’s Amazon rainforest, and flooding across West and Central Africa. Source: “When Risks Become Reality: Extreme Weather in 2024” report from World Weather Attribution & Climate Central The scientists also found that people around the world experienced, on average, 41 extra days of dangerous heat in 2024 due to human-caused warming. Friederike Otto, WWA’s lead and a senior lecturer in climate […]
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