The year 2024 has been confirmed by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service as the hottest year on record. The average global temperature last year was 15.1 Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial (1850-1900) global average. It was also 0.12 Celsius warmer than 2023, the year with the highest average temperature on record.
Last year, the highest average temperatures recorded every month revealed the increasingly serious climate change situation. Among the strange phenomena last year was that the peak of Mount Fuji was not snowed in throughout October as usual.
Climate change has already caused habitat destruction and threatened the extinction of the Earth's flora and fauna. Data from Copernicus shows that the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement target of limiting temperature increase to 1.5 ºC may have been missed. The pandemic five years ago slowed the rise in global temperatures but it was only temporary.