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The first month of 2024 was the hottest January on record, climate scientists from the European Union said Thursday, continuing a dire streak of record global temperatures after 2023 wasthe EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service , average global temperatures last month were 13.14 degrees Celsius, which was 0.12 degrees higher than January 2020—previously the hottest January on record.
The agency’s Deputy Director Samantha Burgess said another alarming record was set last month, as the world “just experienced a 12-month period” of temperatures 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial benchmark. With a record-setting January, the world has now witnessed an eight-month streak of all-time temperature records being broken for a particular month on the calendar.
Compared to a 30-year reference period from 1991 to 2020, January’s spike was lower than the last six months of 2023, but still higher than anything preceding that. Scientists at C3S have repeatedly expressed alarm at not just record-setting temperatures, but also how large the anomaly is compared to the average numbers in the previous three decades.1.5 degrees Celsius. That is the preferred limit for the increase in global temperatures compared to pre-industrial levels, as per the 2015 Paris Agreement signed by world leaders.Twelve months of global temperatures being 1.
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