The official numbers are in, and 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history—and almost surely also the hottest year in the history of human civilization.
The world keeps getting hotter and hotter; but this new record is, in fact, additionally terrible, as 2024 was also the first year that global temperatures have crossed the 1.5 Celsius degree mark.
During the Paris conference, the target was set to be more ambitious, to hold "the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees C" and limit it to 1.5 degrees.
The aim of the new study was to understand what exceeding the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold would mean for the planet's future, which many fear may be irreversible.
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