2024 confirmed as warmest on record

A report from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) confirms
that 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first year to be
more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial era


ANNUAL GLOBAL MEAN TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES
Relative to pre-industrial (1850-1900) reference period

Datasets	Berkeley Earth	HadCRUT5
		ERA5		JRA-3Q
		GISTEMP	NOAA GlobalTemp

2024: 1.55°C above
pre-industrial level

1.5°C
1.0
0.5
0
	1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020


ANNUAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES IN 2024
Relative to 1991-2020 average

5°C
3
2
1
0.5
0.25
0
-0.25
-0.5
-1
-2
-3
-5

Note: Values shown are median of six global temperature datasets


Sources: New York Times, WMO 
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