The year 2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record: WMO – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The year 2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record, with the global average surface temperature even higher than 2023. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said this on Thursday.
It means that it will be the first year of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius Threshold of the Paris Agreement – warming above pre-industrial levels (1850-1900). Currently, 2023 was the warmest year on record, with a global average surface temperature of 1.45 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial baseline.
The WMO global temperature analysis covers the period from January to September 2024 and draws on six international datasets to provide a consolidated temperature assessment. It provided the information to UN Secretary General António Guterres ahead of the 29th session of the UN UN conference on climate change (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Although the WMO warned that the world is moving closer to the Paris Agreement’s climate change goals, the threshold to limit temperature rise this century to within 1.5 degrees Celsius actually refers to a long-term temperature increase over decades, not over a period of one to five degrees. years.
WMO uses multiple datasets, including those from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts and its Copernicus Climate Change Service, and the Japan Meteorological Agency, to arrive at its preliminary findings.