That’s why, when the world passed the first 12-month period of temperatures over 1.5 degrees Celsius in February 2024, scientists warned that this didn’t mean the end of the target.

With each degree Celsius of warming, the air can hold 7% more water vapor. This means record rainfall, resulting in floods, mudslides, and erosion.

The Copernicus team calculated 1.6 degrees Celsius of warming, Japan 1.57 and the British 1.53. Berkeley Earth — originally funded by a climate change skeptic — came in the hottest at 1.62 ...

This year won’t just be the hottest on record—it could be the first to surpass 1.5 degrees Celsius. The Paris climate accord aims to keep warming below that level when looking over multiple years.

A heating degree day (HDD) is the degrees that a day's average temperature is below 65 Fahrenheit (18 Celsius), used to quantify the demand for energy.

Jan. 10 (UPI) --The average global surface temperature for 2024 exceeded the 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels threshold set by the Paris Agreement for the first time and was the ...