2024 in climate change

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This article documents events, research findings, scientific and technological advances, and human actions to measure, predict, mitigate, and adapt to the effects of global warming and climate change—during the year 2024.

Contents

Summaries

2023–2024 as a turning point

     When our children and grandchildren look back at the history of human-made climate change, this year and next [2024] will be seen as the turning point at which the futility of governments in dealing with climate change was finally exposed.

James Hansen, December 2023 [1]
Director (1981-2013) of NASA's
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
In 2024, Earth saw the highest average annual surface air temperature ever recorded, outpacing 2023 on an average basis. 1940-2024 Global surface temperature - stacked - Copernicus.jpg
In 2024, Earth saw the highest average annual surface air temperature ever recorded, outpacing 2023 on an average basis.

Measurements and statistics

The 2024 hurricane season saw an early flareup of activity including the earliest Category 5 storm on record, an unusual mid-season pause, and a final flareup to end the season. 2024 Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index compared to 30-year average.svg
The 2024 hurricane season saw an early flareup of activity including the earliest Category 5 storm on record, an unusual mid-season pause, and a final flareup to end the season.
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Climate Central applied a hurricane attribution framework from an Environmental Research: Climate paper to conclude that climate change's increase of water temperatures intensified peak wind speeds in all eleven 2024 Atlantic hurricanes. [19]
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Scientists in the field of extreme event attribution have concluded that in virtually all countries and territories around the world in a year-long period beginning in May 2024, human-caused global warming has increased the number of days of extreme heat events over long-term norms. [20]

Natural events and phenomena

      For the first time, scientists... have clearly documented current and future drying trends and impacts that reveal a global, existential peril previously shrouded by a fog of scientific uncertainty. (Aridity) and its effects threaten the lives and livelihoods of billions across almost every region of the globe. [39]

—United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
9 December 2024

Actions and goal statements

Science and technology

Political, economic, legal, and cultural actions

Educational content of 18,400 universities worldwide higher education was found to not be transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy curricula nearly fast enough to meet future workforce demands. Global share of degree programmes in renewable energy and fossil fuels.jpg
Educational content of 18,400 universities worldwide higher education was found to not be transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy curricula nearly fast enough to meet future workforce demands.
Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak

     ● Documents demonstrate for the first time that fossil fuel companies internally do not dispute that they have understood since at least the 1960s that burning fossil fuels causes climate change and then worked for decades to undermine public understanding of this fact and to deny the underlying science.
     ● Big Oil's deception campaign evolved from explicit denial of the basic science underlying climate change to deception, disinformation, and doublespeak.

—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability,
and U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget [79]
30 April 2024
Highway to climate hell

      In the case of climate, we are not the dinosaurs. We are the meteor. We are not only in danger, we are the danger. But, we are also the solution.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres
5 June 2024 [80]

Mitigation goal statements

Adaptation goal statements

Consensus

In a UNDP survey covering 77 countries, most respondents from top fossil fuel-producing countries favored a quick transition away from fossil fuels. 202406 Peoples' Climate Vote 2024 - UNDP.svg
In a UNDP survey covering 77 countries, most respondents from top fossil fuel-producing countries favored a quick transition away from fossil fuels.

Projections

In a 2024 survey, 76.3% of responding IPCC lead authors and review editors projected at least 2.5 degC of global warming by 2100; only 5.79% forecast warming of 1.5 degC or less. 20240508 Survey of IPCC lead authors and review editors re expectation of global warming.svg
In a 2024 survey, 76.3% of responding IPCC lead authors and review editors projected at least 2.5 °C of global warming by 2100; only 5.79% forecast warming of 1.5 °C or less.

Significant publications

See also

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