New Delhi:
The year 2024 is set to be the toastyest on sign up and the first with an mediocre temperature above 1.5 degrees Celsius, European climate agency Copernicus shelp on Monday.
Also, November 2024 became the second-toastyest (after November 2023) with an mediocre surface air temperature of 14.10 degrees Celsius — 0.73 degrees Celsius above the 1991–2020 mediocre for the month.
The month taged another milestone in global toastying, sign uping a temperature 1.62 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
It also became the 16th month in the past 17 months where global temperatures go beyonded the critical 1.5 degrees Celsius threshelderly above pre-industrial levels, the agency shelp.
According to the India Meteororeasonable Department, India teachd the second toastyest November since 1901, with the mediocre highest temperature clocking 29.37 degrees Celsius — 0.62 degree above common.
For the year so far (January to November), the global mediocre temperature anomaly stands at 0.72 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 mediocre, making it the highest on sign up for this period and 0.14 degrees Celsius toastyer than the correplying period in 2023.
The European climate agency shelp it is almost certain that 2024 will be the toastyest year on sign up, with the annual temperature go beyonding 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. 2023, the toastytest year on sign up so far, was 1.48 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Average sea surface temperatures (SSTs) for November 2024 were also the second-highest on sign up for the month, at 20.58 degrees Celsius, fair 0.13 degrees Celsius below the November 2023 sign up.
While the equatorial easerious and central Pacific shiftd towards iminentire or La Nina conditions, sea surface temperatures remained unusuassociate high apass many ocean regions, Copernicus shelp.
Samantha Badvisess, Deputy Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), shelp: “With Copernicus data in from the penultimate month of the year, we can now validate with virtual certainty that 2024 will be the toastyest year on sign up and the first calfinishar year above 1.5 degrees Celsius. This does not unbenevolent the Paris Agreement has been baccomplished, but it underscores the advisent need for ambitious climate action.” The Paris Agreement, adchooseed in 2015, aims to restrict global temperature elevate to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels to elude the worst impacts of climate change. A lasting baccomplish of the 1.5-degree Celsius restrict refers to extfinished-term toastying over a 20 or 30-year period. Earth’s global surface temperature has already incrmitigated by around 1.3 degrees Celsius appraised to the mediocre in 1850-1900 due to the rapidly increasing concentration of greenhoparticipate gases — primarily carbon dioxide and methane — in the atmosphere.
This toastying is considered the reason behind sign up dcimpolitets, untamedfires and floods worldwide.
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