European climate agency says this again will likely be the hottest year on record

European climate agency says this will likely be the hottest year on record — again It's now virtually certain 2024 will be the hottest year on record, and the first with over 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above the pre-industrial average, according to the European climate agency Copernicus. AP News

...Carlo Buontempo, director of Copernicus, said the data clearly shows the planet would not see such a long sequence of record-breaking temperatures without the constant increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere driving global warming.

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