2024: Hottest Year on Earth

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'Ambitious climate action is more urgent than ever:' 3 Climate records broken in 2024

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This year will be the hottest year since instrument record keeping began more than a century ago .

2024 will also be the first calendar year in which the global average temperature exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius ( 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit ) above pre-industrial levels.

The year began with the continuation of a record 13-month heat streak, which ended in July as the natural El Niño climate pattern subsided.

Certain aspects of global warming can still be reversed with aggressive action to reduce emissions that keeps warming below 3 degrees Fahrenheit, scientists say.

"The obstacles are not physical. They're not technological — they're entirely political at this point," a climatologist said last year .

An agreement by about two dozen industrialised countries to contribute $300 billion a year by 2035 was met with strong criticism last month .

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