according to UN research that found that 2024 was likely the hottest year on record and the first to exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels… The record temperatures led to an intensification of storms and weather disasters, with at least 151 ‘unprecedented’ extreme weather events in 2024. “Millions of people are increasingly suffering the consequences” of climate change in the form of heat waves, floods, droughts, storms and rising seas, said Stefan Rahmstorf, head of the research department at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. “We can only stop the warming trend by getting off fossil fuels, and we have to do it fast,” he said.“Ignoring reality, denying the laws of physics and silencing scientists can only lead to damage, and ordinary people will pay the price.”
