2024 Will Be the Hottest Year on Record and First Above 1.5C, EU Scientists Say [Video]

People visit Bondi Beach at sunrise during a heat wave in Sydney, Australia on Nov. 27, 2024. Brook Mitchell / Getty Images

According to new data from Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), 2024 will be the planet’s warmest ever recorded, as well as the first above the 1.5 degrees Celsius temperature threshold set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.

The European Union’s climate monitor found that the planet’s average surface temperature for November was 1.62 degrees Celsius higher than the pre-industrial average. With 11 months of data for 2024 now available, scientists have said that the global average temperature for the year is projected to be 1.60 degrees Celsius, which would break the record of 1.48 degrees Celsius set last year, reported The Guardian.

“With Copernicus data in from the penultimate month of …