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1st year to breach global warming limit
January 14 , 2025
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- The average global temperature for the year exceeded 1.5°C above the pre-industrial baseline for the first time in 2024.
- The WMO’s assessment is calculated using the average global temperature across six datasets, with the period of 1850 to 1900 used to provide a pre-industrial baseline.
- Every month from January to June 2024 was the warmest ever recorded for those months.
- From July to December, except for August, each month was the second warmest on record, behind 2023.
- The average global temperature was 15.1 degrees Celsius - 0.72 degrees above the 1991-2020 average and 0.12 degrees higher than that in 2023, the previous record-holder.
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