{"id":266588,"date":"2024-12-13T02:51:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T02:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/climate-chaos-accelerated-in-2024-as-we-hit-1-5c-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:06","slug":"climate-chaos-accelerated-in-2024-as-we-hit-1-5c-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/climate-chaos-accelerated-in-2024-as-we-hit-1-5c-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate chaos accelerated in 2024 as we hit 1.5\u00b0C for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"A man makes his way at a hill as African dust from the desert of Sahara covers the city of Athens, Greece, April 23, 2024. REUTERS\/Louisa Gouliamaki TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC2FC7ATEP85\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/09152939\/SEI_231805991.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2459576\" data-caption=\"Saharan dust storms like this one in Athens, Greece (above), are becoming more common\" data-credit=\"Reuters\/Louisa Gouliamaki\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Saharan dust storms like this one in Athens, Greece (above), are becoming more common<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Reuters\/Louisa Gouliamaki<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>It won\u2019t be confirmed until January, but it is now almost certain that 2024 will surpass 2023 as the hottest year on record. Even more significantly, the global average temperature is set to show that the planet has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2455106-2024-is-set-to-be-the-first-year-that-breaches-the-1-5c-warming-limit\/\">warmed by more than 1.5\u00b0C since the 19th century<\/a> \u2013 the limit countries agreed to pursue under the Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>But average temperatures are just one way of assessing the rapid changes taking place in the planet\u2019s climate in response to our greenhouse gas emissions. From\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26435210-100-climate-chaos-accelerated-in-2024-as-we-hit-1-5c-for-the-first-time\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Saharan dust storms like this one in Athens, Greece (above), are becoming more common Reuters\/Louisa Gouliamaki It won\u2019t be confirmed until January, but it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}