Climate Change
Global Warming Surges Well Past 1.5-Degree Mark in 2024
International agencies coordinate release of annual climate data to highlight the past year’s “exceptional”—and dangerous—climate conditions.
Nearly all major global climate datasets agree that, in 2024, human-caused global warming for the first time pushed Earth’s average surface temperature to more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average for a full calendar year, a level that countries around the world had agreed to do all they could to avoid.