Add 2024 to the list of years where humanity didn’t do much about the impending climate catastrophe.
From The Guardian:
The organisation said the past year was set to be the warmest on record, capping a decade of unprecedented heat fuelled by human activities and driving increasing weather extremes, while greenhouse gas levels continued to reach new highs, locking in more heat for the future.
Such that:
The top 10 hottest years on record have happened in the last 10 years, including 2024
Although ‘impending’ is probably the wrong word for something that is already contributing towards the killing of thousands and displacing of millions of people.
The WMO pointed to a new report that found climate change intensified 26 of the 29 extreme weather events studied by World Weather Attribution (WWA) in 2024, which killed at least 3,700 people and displaced millions.
I’m not at all hopeful that we’ll make much progress next year either, given a mix of our apparent natural disinclination to take meaningful action and the geopolitical situation of the world.