Even if it's not all year round, we're starting to live in a world at +1.5°C, a warming that's harmful for humans and many ecosystems. This brings us closer to certain tipping points,
The temperature-related extreme events witnessed this summer will only become more intense, with more devastating consequences for people and the planet unless we take urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
The record global warmth this summer is expected given the lingering heat from the subsiding El Niño event that has added to the continued heating by emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities,
During the past three months of 2024, the globe has experienced the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record, and the hottest boreal summer on record,
This string of record temperatures is increasing the likelihood of 2024 being the hottest year on record,
The year-to-date (January–August 2024) global-average temperature anomaly is 0.70°C above the 1991
In Mexico and Central America, weeks of persistent heat starting in spring 2024 combined with prolonged drought led to severe water shortages and dozens of deaths,
What those sober numbers indicate is how the climate crisis is tightening its grip on us,
In order for 2024 not to become the warmest on record, we need to see very significant landscape cooling for the remaining few months, which doesn't look likely at this stage,
It's really not surprising that we see this, this heat wave, that we see these temperature extremes,
This all translates to more misery around the world as places like Phoenix start to feel like a barbecue locked on high for longer and longer stretches of the year,
Like people living in a war zone with the constant thumping of bombs and clatter of guns, we are becoming deaf to what should be alarm bells and air-raid sirens,
We know that the warming of the planet leads to more intense and extreme climate events, and what we’ve seen this summer has been no exception,