The New Year brings the annual accounting of global events, and climate change is a major talking point. Experts predict 2024 will be the hottest year on record, emphasizing the need for immediate and drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. However, achieving such a rapid shift away from fossil fuels faces significant hurdles, as demonstrated by the lack of public demand for change even in the face of extreme weather events like the Philippines' recent cyclone onslaught.
LONDON, U.K.—The New Year is when we do the accounts for the past year, and the bad news always gets top billing: how many wars are going on, how big were the natural disasters, etc.? Climate change now has its own slot in this annual accounting, and here is what the climate pundits will say. First, they will acknowledge that 2024 was the hottest year since we began keeping records a few centuries ago.
Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies think the world’s reflective cloud cover has shrunk in the past two decades by a small, but significant amount. Therefore, more sunlight is reaching the surface, which boosts global warming. Unfortunately, the climate scientists still don’t know if this is just a one-time jump, after which the old rate of warming will resume. It could just as easily be a new, higher rate of warming that persists or even accelerates further.
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