'Point of no return': 2024 To Be Hottest Year In History, Experts Report

One of the premier weather agencies in the world says 2024 will be the hottest year in history and that temperatures may rise above what experts believe is the “point of no return” for global warming.

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According to the AP, “For the second year in a row, Earth will almost certainly be the hottest it’s ever been. And for the first time, the globe this year reached more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming compared to the pre-industrial average, the European climate agency Copernicus said Thursday.” The experts blamed greenhouse gases.

The news almost certainly means that the earth will keep warming. The agency reported, “going over the 1.5 degree Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) threshold of warming for a single year is different than the goal adopted in the 2015 Paris Agreement. That goal was meant to try to cap warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times on average, over 20 or 30 years.”

China, US, And India
There is virtually no chance that things will get better. The big three polluters, China, the US, and India, show no real signs of trying to cap emissions. If anything, fossil fuel use has become critical to India’s rise as an industrial nation.

Money promised to developing nations to help them reach climate goals has not been forthcoming at a meaningful level. Available money is often made as loans, saddles these nations with more debt.

The climate change barrier has been broken and likely won’t be fixed.