This year, for the first time, the world is compared to the period before the industrial revolution. A year that was 1.5 degrees warmer It looks like it will survive. This temperature increase will surpass last year’s record and is 0.6 degrees above the 1991-2020 average. Findings are currently being made in this regard in Azerbaijan. At the COP29 climate summit Copernicus was announced by Berkeley Earth and the British Met Office.

earlier this year El Nino Temperatures rose due to the weather conditions, but this effect ended in recent months. The extreme warming that began during that period is also shaking up the climate system and causing extreme weather events worldwide. This year alone there have been floods in Valencia, Hurricane Milton in the US, forest fires in Peru and rice fields destroyed in Bangladesh.

Extreme weather conditions could be our new reality

From the World Meteorological Organization Celeste Saulo“Heavy rains, rapidly strengthening hurricanes, deadly heat wavesdroughts and forest fires are now our new reality,” he said. Australian climate scientist Mark Hats while “If leaders and companies do not take action quickly On a 3°C warmer world “We are going in the right direction. Even with a 1.25 degree temperature increase, we have seen major impacts around the world. At higher levels, the consequences can be even more devastating.” He called out to the leaders.

On the other hand, if the threshold is exceeded by 1.5 degrees, in the Paris Agreement It does not mean that the target has definitely been exceeded. When evaluating these objectives, ten-year averages are taken into account. On the other hand, according to some scientists, this goal has already been exceeded and important natural systems are on the verge of collapse.