2024 is now the hottest year on record. It is the first calendar year more than 1.5 degrees Celsius hotter than in the pre-industrial era. The average person experience an additional 41 days of dangerous heat in 2024.
Hottest Decade. Ever.
Not only was 2024 the hottest year on record, it also ended the hottest decade ever. As humans continue to fill the atmosphere with greenhouse gasses by burning fossil fuels and industrial production practices, we are literally slow-cooking ourselves and our planet.
