Reason Magazine
•2024 was the hottest year on record
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Last year the global average temperature rose more than 1.5 degrees Celsius ( 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit ) above the 19th century pre-industrial mean.
This exceeds, for the first time, the aspirational goal set forth by the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement .
This rate of temperature increase is about ten times faster than the increase that ended the last ice age about 11,500 years ago .
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https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2024GL109077https://berkeleyearth.org/global-temperature-report-for-2024/https://climate.copernicus.eu/global-climate-highlights-2024https://www.noaa.gov/news/2024-was-worlds-warmest-year-on-recordhttps://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/rmt2021_en_0.pdfhttps://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2025/2024-record-breaking-watershed-year-for-global-climatehttps://www.drroyspencer.com/2025/01/uah-v6-1-global-temperature-update-for-december-2024-0-62-deg-c/https://berkeleyearth.org/about/https://eos.org/articles/tracking-climate-through-ship-exhausthttps://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/GlobalWarming/page3.phphttps://ggweather.com/enso/oni.htmhttps://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/english_paris_agreement.pdf
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