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2024 marked the first time global temperatures exceeded the 1.5C warming threshold

2024 marked the first time global temperatures exceeded the 1.5C warming threshold

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The articles report that 2024 was the hottest year on record, with global temperatures exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times. This is a significant milestone, as it marks the first full calendar year to surpass the 1.5°C target set by the Paris Agreement in 2015.

António Guterres
United Nations
1. We must exit this road to ruin - and we have no time to lose.
John Noel
Greenpeace
1. We must dismantle the dangerous corporate delusion that fossil fuel expansion can continue without consequence. Instead, we must embrace the once in a lifetime opportunity to build the zero-carbon infrastructure needed for a safe future that includes everyone.
Samantha Burgess
Copernicus Climate Change Service
1. By far and away the largest contribution impacting our climate is greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
2. Until we see that effectively dissipate into the deep ocean, we're likely to continue to see very high temperatures, but maybe not record-breaking temperatures.
Helge Gößling
Alfred Wegener Institute
1. The question is whether this acceleration is something persistent linked to human activities that means we will have steeper warming in the future, or whether it is a part of natural variability.
2. Since 2023 we've had around 0.2C of extra warming that we can't fully explain, on top of what we had expected from climate change and El Niño.
Myles Allen
University of Oxford
1. When exactly we will cross the long-term 1.5C threshold is hard to predict, but we're obviously very close now.
Carlo Buontempo
Copernicus Climate Change Service
1. We are facing a very new climate and new challenges, challenges that our society is not prepared for.
Zeke Hausfather
Berkeley Earth
1. Even if 1.5 degrees is out the window, we still can probably limit warming to 1.6C, 1.7C or 1.8C this century.
2. It's not like 1.49C is fine, and 1.51C is the apocalypse - every tenth of a degree matters and climate impacts get progressively worse the more warming we have.
3. I think it's safe to say that both 2023 and 2024 temperatures surprised most climate scientists - we didn't think we'd be seeing a year above 1.5C this early.
4. That's going to be far, far better than if we keep burning coal, oil and gas unabated and end up at 3C or 4C - it still really matters.
Brenda Ekwurzel
Union of Concerned Scientists
1. It has acted as a buffer over the past half century, or 70 years, for us. We are exceeding that buffer capacity, and we are feeling that in terms of extreme events on land.

2024 marked the first time global temperatures exceeded the 1.5C warming threshold

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