With the year 2024 ending cold in mainland Portugal, perceptions even made us forget what was already announced: the year 2024 was the hottest ever recorded in the world, according to the final report from the European service Copernicus, released this Friday . The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) had already announced on December 30, now it was the turn of the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) to attest to the data and confirm that last year was the first year to exceed the warming limit annually. above 1.5 °C, compared to the pre-industrial period. Indeed, globally it was even 1.6 °C above the estimated annual temperature in the period 1850-1900. And they contributed to this warming, especially the first six months of the year.
Source: expresso.pt
