Global Heat Spike In 2023 Continued Through 2024; CO2 Content Rose At Record Rate In 2024, Matching 2015 Record
Last year, Venezuela lost its last glacier. Neighboring Colombia also saw a glacier melt out of existence. Around the world, all 58 glaciers monitored by the American Meteorological Society lost mass during 2024. Since observations began in 1970, only one other year saw every monitored glacier shrink: 2023. Now 2024 appears to have broken grim records for global temperatures and greenhouse concentrations set just the year before, according to the annual AMS climate assessment released Thursday.
“The annual global temperature across land and ocean was the highest recorded in the observational record,” said the 527-page State of the Climate report. “Anomalous warmth in 2024 occurred across most of the world and contributed to many of the continued changes in key climate indicators.” The heat spike of 2023 and 2024 likely arose from a convergence of human activity and natural variability, the report said. Rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, which warm the climate, “showed no sign of slowing in their increases,” it said.
Warmth helped intensify the water cycle. Single-day rainfall totals across the globe also hit record highs, indicating an increase in rainfall intensity, the report said. South of the melting glaciers in Venezuela and Colombia, Brazil suffered its worst flooding disaster in history, as well as its third-driest year on record.
Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the most abundant greenhouse gas, grew at a record rate in 2024, matching 2015 as the largest annual increase since records began in 1960. Carbon dioxide emissions come primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, which also continues to increase around the world, despite decades of global accords to slow the emissions.
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