For decades, scientists have been warning about the consequences of the climate crisis and insisting on the need to implement the Montreal Treaty to curb climate change.. Despite promises from world leaders to do everything to curb global warming, scientists say the Earth moved one step closer to warming by more than 1.5°C last year, writes BBC.

This was stated by researchers from the European climate service Copernicus, which is one of the world's main data providers.. Scientists said 2024 was the first calendar year on record to cross the symbolic threshold and also become the hottest.

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It is important to understand that this indicator does not mean that the international target of 1.5°C has been breached. The fact is that this indicator refers to a long-term average over decades. But scientists warn it is bringing us closer to a tipping point as emissions from fossil fuel use steadily continue to warm the planet..

Recently, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called last year's series of temperature records a " He also called on the world community to get off this path, and now - humanity simply does not have time to unwind.

According to Copernicus, average global temperatures in 2024 were about 1.6°C above pre-industrial levels—a period of time in human history before humans began burning large amounts of fossil fuels.. As a result, the planet's temperature exceeded the 2023 heat record by just 0.1 °C, effectively making the last 10 years in Earth's history the hottest on record..

Researchers have already said that last year's heat wave was largely due to man-made emissions of planet-warming gases, including carbon dioxide.. Moreover, observations show that these emissions levels are still at record highs. Natural weather conditions such as El Nino, when surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific become unusually warm, played a lesser role.

Experts also recalled that the risks associated with climate change, including heat waves, rising sea levels and loss of wildlife, will be significantly higher if the planet passes the 2°C warming mark. At the same time, research shows that the world is getting closer to breaking the 1.5°C barrier and no one dares to guess when exactly we will overcome this barrier.

According to Miles Allen of Oxford University's physics department, the planet's current warming trajectory is likely to see the world pass the 1.5°C long-term warming mark by the early 2030s..

In fact, this event will have political implications, but still won't mean it's game over for climate action.

According to Berkeley Earth climate scientist Zeke Hausfather, essentially every tenth of a degree of warming matters, and the climate impacts will get worse every time.. Even fractions of a degree of global warming could lead to more frequent and intense extreme weather events such as heat waves and heavy rainfall.

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