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2024 'certain' to be hottest year ever as emissions continue to drive climate change

Forest fires, like this one near Brasilia National Park in Brazil in September, are fuelled by record drought in the country. Scientists say that global warming is making extreme weather events more frequent and ferocious. © Evaristo SA/AFP

This year is "effectively certain" to be the warmest on record and the first calendar year in which average global temperatures were more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, Europe’s climate monitor has announced.

"At this point, it is effectively certain that 2024 is going to be the warmest year on record," the Copernicus Climate Change Service said in its monthly bulletin.

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