Intolerable heat. Unsurvivable storms. Inescapable floods. 

In 2024, billions of people across the world faced climatic conditions that broke record after record, logging ever more highs for heat, floods, storms, fire and drought. 

As the year drew to a close, the conclusion was both blatant and bleak: 2024 was the hottest year since records began, according to European climate scientists. 

But it may not hold this dubious honour for long. 

“This is life now and it’s not going to get easier. It’s only going to get harder. That’s what climate change means,” said Andrew Pershing, chief programs officer at Climate Central, a U.S.-based non-profit climate advocacy group. 

“Because we continue to pollute the atmosphere, we’re going to get, year after year, warmer and warmer oceans, warmer and warmer lands, bigger and badder storms.”    

Others use still bolder language. 

“We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster,” said the 2024 State of the Climate report.

Diana Baptista

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