Earth hit with 12 straight months of record-breaking temperatures

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A vendor prepares his umbrella as hot days continue in Manila, Philippines on April 29, 2024. Sizzling heat across Asia and the Middle East in late April that echoed last year’s destructive swelter was made 45 times more likely in some parts of the continent because of human-caused climate change, a study found.

The planet’s string of record-breaking temperatures has continued for a full year, with May marking the 12th consecutive month for which its average temperature set a new record for the month. The grim milestone prompted a call for urgent action from the United Nations.A vendor prepares his umbrella as hot days continue in Manila, Philippines.

Guterres called on world leaders and corporations to take "urgent action" over the next 18 months to slash greenhouse gas emissions, boost climate finance and "clamp down on the fossil fuel industry." "It is shocking but not surprising that we have reached this 12-month streak," Copernicus director Carlo Buontempo said in a statement.

Ko Barrett, the WMO's secretary-general, said the projections show we will be exceeding 1.5 C "on a temporary basis with increasing frequency."Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries agreed to keep long-term global average surface temperature from rising 2 C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 C by the end of this century.

"There's a whole series of strategies we can do, but they all take effort and time," said McBean, who was the lead author onBill Merryfield, a research scientist with Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis, says climate warming was particularly acute in northern Canada.

 

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