According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, 2024 is all set to be the warmest year on record and the first calendar year to cross the symbolic 1.5°C limit. The experts have also said that 2023 was 1.48°C above the pre-industrial levels and 2024 is “likely” to be more than 1.55°C.
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Pre-industrial refers to the benchmark period of 1850-1900. This is the time before humans started significantly heating up the planet by burning large amounts of fossil fuels.
On analysing the data published by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, the BBC has said that the world’s oceans have suffered a year of record-breaking heat due to climate change. The seas have broken temperature records every single day for the past year.
This has not only caused widespread coral bleaching, but has threatened the habitat for many marine species. For 13 months in a row, the sea surface temperature has been the warmest on record. According to experts, warmer sea temperatures may result in severe hurricanes and these changes could have long term effects on the Earth like rising sea levels. Greenhouse gases and El Niño have warmed the seas.
