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If ever there was a wake-up call, this is it. The fire alarm is going off – hell, the fire alarm is on fire. The latest data confirms this 2024 was the first year where the global average temperature was 1.5 °C higher than the pre-industrial level, breaking the totemic limit established by the Paris Agreement (see “2024 confirmed as first year to break 1.5°C warming limit”).
Which is totally expected which makes it less surprising. We reported in January 2023 that the first model already suggested that 2024 would be the first year to pass that threshold. Unexpected,…
