According to the SPOLSTO monitoring system of the European Union (EU) Copernicus, the forecast was confirmed that 2024 became the “hottest year” in the history of observations.
According to these data, the last month was the “second warmest November”, and the average air temperature at the Earth’s surface was 14.10 degrees.
This is 0.73 degrees higher than November 1991-2020.
The average global temperature anomaly for the year (January-November 2024) was 0.72 degrees higher than the average temperature of 1991-2020. This value showed that 2024 was 0.14 degrees warmer than the same period of 2023.
Thus, the forecast that 2024 will become the hottest in the history of observations was finally confirmed.
In the north of Russia, in northeastern and southwestern Europe and below the average in southeastern Europe, the temperature was recorded above average.
outside Europe, the temperature was higher than the average in eastern Canada, the central and eastern part of the United States, in most of Mexico, in Morocco, in north-west of Africa, in China, Pakistan, for most of Siberia and Australia.
Time for taking urgent measures
Deputy Director of Copernicus Change Changes (C3S), Samantha Burges, said 2024 along with the fact that it will be the hottest year in the history of observations, as well as the first year when the growth of global temperature exceeds 1.5 degrees.
According to her, such an increase does not mean a change in the goals of the Paris Agreement, according to which this indicator should remain below 2 degrees if possible: “But this means that taking measures to protect the climate is now more relevant.”