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2024 op koers naar 1,5°C boven pre-industriële niveaus
November 7, 2024 - According to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, 2023 was 1.48°C warmer than pre-industrial levels, making it almost certain to be more than 1.5°C higher in 2024.
After 10 months of 2024, it’s now almost certain that the year will be the warmest on record and the first that’s warmer by more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels (1850-1900).
October 2024 was the second-warmest October globally, after 2023, with an average surface air temperature of 15.25°C, 0.80°C above the 1991-2020 average for October, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
It was also 1.65°C above the pre-industrial level and was the 15th month in a 16-month period for which the global-average surface air temperature exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
Given that 2023 was 1.48°C above the pre-industrial level, it is virtually certain that the annual temperature for 2024 will be more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level – likely more than 1.55°C above.
This marks a depressing new milestone in global temperature records that will be an urgent talking point at the upcoming Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan from November 11 to 22, 2024.