2024 Sizzles as Earth's Hottest Year, Unleashing Extreme Weather

2024 burned its way into the record books, soaring to 1.6°C above pre-industrial levels for the first time. This blistering heat stressed 44% of the planet and ignited extreme weather like the catastrophic Afghanistan-Pakistan floods and Brazil's southern deluge, tallying 1,084 deaths and displacing over half a million.

As the last decade steamed ahead as the warmest on record with ocean heat on the rise, scientists warn we're steering towards a perilous 2.7°C increase by 2100 unless we cool our carbon cravings. Time to turn down the thermostat on climate change!