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2024 is going to smash heat records

Can the world still meet global climate goals?

The planet is on track to pass a worrying threshold when it comes to global average temperatures, warns the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. While that’s based on a Copernicus analysis of data stretching back to 1940, separate research using markers in ancient tree rings found that the summer of 2023 in the Northern hemisphere was probably the hottest in at least 2,000 years. That might not sound like much, but it exceeds the most ambitious target set in the Paris climate accord — an international treaty to keep warming from surpassing 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius over the long term.

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