Do we enter a new dangerous phase of climate change?

If there was an alarm clock, that's all. The fire alarm sounds – hell, the fire alarm is on fire. The latest data confirm that 2024 was the first year In which the average global temperature was 1.5 ° C higher than pre -industrial levels, breaking a totemic limit fixed by the Paris Agreement (see “2024 confirmed in the first year to break the warming limit of 1.5 ° C”).

The fact that this was completely expected makes him no less shocking. In January 2023, we reported that early modeling has already suggested that 2024 would be the first year to spend this threshold. What is unexpected, …