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January 2024 is on track to be so warm that for the first time a 12-month period will exceed the 1.5-degree threshold, Copernicus said.

In one of the first of several teams of science agencies to calculate how off-the-charts warm 2023 was, the European climate agency Copernicus said the year was 1.48 degrees Celsius (2.66 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times. 

The increase in the planet's surface temperature nearly crossed the critical threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.66 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, European Union climate monitors say.

Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the worlds agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency

January 2024 is on track to be so warm that for the first time a 12-month period will exceed the 1.5-degree threshold, Copernicus said.

Scientists say a warming climate is also to blame for more extreme weather events, like the lengthy drought that devastated the Horn of Africa, the torrential downpours that wiped out dams and killed thousands in Libya and the Canada wildfires that fouled the air from North America to Europe

Earth last year shattered global annual heat records and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said Tuesday.

January 2024 is on track to be so warm that for the first time a 12-month period will exceed the 1.5-degree threshold, Copernicus said.

Earth shattered global annual heat records last year and its flirting with the warming threshold that nations wanted to stay within to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, European

The record heat made life miserable and sometimes deadly in Europe, North America, China and many other places last year.