Increase in Co2 Concentrations in the atmosphere. The link between c02 and rising temperatures is well established and this year Global Temperatures got an extra boost thanks to el nino, which brings warmer water to the surface of parts of the tropical pacific. That explains why february was 1. 77 degrees warmer than preindustrial temperatures, and why global average temperatures hit a record 1. 55 degrees above preindustrial levels over the last 12 months. It means we have temporarily at least breached the 1. 5 degrees threshold the world agreed to try and limit Temperature Rise to, to avoid the worst impacts of Climate Change. February 2024 was the warmest february on record globally, with an average temperature of 13. 54 degrees, above the 1991 2020 temperature. While this is remarkable, because, for instance, it is a tenth of a degree warmer than the warmest previous february, which was 2016, its not really surprising, because this has been the el nino year, where temperatures tend
a brand new poll releasing right about now reveals what voters now think of joe biden and america s economy. plus the trump organization s former financial base is in talks to potentially plead guilty again this time to perjury. and i ve told this to anybody who will hear it. i am not going anywhere. nikki haley is holding out even with calls for her to quit the race. but for how long. what s going on, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m omar jimenez in for kasie hunt. it is friday, february 2, 5:00 a.m. on the east coast. coming up, a new cnn poll, numbers just in, they show america s deep pessimism about the economy might be easing up even if only a little. 26% say the economy is starting to recover versus 48% say it is still in a downturn. which doesn t sound great until you compare it to the poll last summer when only 20% said the economy is recovering. like practically everything else now, views of the economy are sharply split
come, as negotiators desperately try to agree on a wording that will avoid another us veto. we will get reaction from one of the un teams that have been working inside gaza about how vital a pause in fighting is for aid groups to continue their operations in the strip. also tonight, we will be live in iceland, where there has been a dramatic volcanic eruption. and after having his requests for more military funding blocked in washington and brussels, president zelensky has told the ukrainian people that he is confident they will win the war, calling for half a million more ukrainians to join the army. negotiators in the united nations security council have spent the day trying to come to an agreement over the wording of a resolution calling for a humanitarian pause in fighting in gaza. they have delayed the vote multiple times in the last 2a hours to try and come to an agreement that will avoid a us veto. a vote is now expected in around two hours time. remember, the us was
through a resolution focused on getting humanitarian aid into gaza, but it stops short of calling for a cease fire. we will have the latest from our correspondent in new york and have all the reaction for you, including from a un human rights representative working on the ground in gaza. also on the programme tonight, we ll take stock of the uk economy after poor figures raise fears of a recession in 202a. and what happens when you need to take out the trash when you live in space? we ll look at the complicated operation under way today to clear the junk on the international space station. good evening. the united nations security council has passed a resolution aiming to get more aid into gaza, but which stops short of calling for an immediate truce. this was the moment the vote came in. 13 in favour and two abstentions from permanent members the us and russia but, crucially, no votes against, no veto. so after multiple attempts to come to an agreement on action after th
on the outskirts of bakhmut , a city on the outskirts of bakhmut, a city they ve been assaulting for months. investigations continue after a us fighterjet shot down a object flying over canada s airspace making it the third to be destoyed over north america in the last week. mps accuse the bbc chairman, richard sharp, of significant errors ofjudgment, in not declaring his ties to borisjohnson, before joining the corporation. the number of dead from the earthquakes in turkey and syria, is now more than 30,000, but remarkably, almost a week on, survivors are still being pulled from the rubble. united nations aid vehicles have now begun arriving in syria, but the head of the un s relief mission, says many people have a right to feel abandoned. part of the problem, is that rebel groups still control parts of the north west, following years of civil war. 0ur middle east correspondent, quentin sommerville, and cameraman robbie wright, have managed to gain access, and sent us th