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Global warming hits critical limit, warmest 12-month period in history

Climate change thaws world's northernmost research station

Global warming has reached a critical turning point, surpassing the threshold warned by climate scientists. The European Union's Copernicus climate and weather monitoring service has announced that the world recently experienced the warmest 12-month period in recorded history, with temperatures exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average.

This alarming news comes as January 2024 has been declared the warmest January ever recorded globally. With temperatures 1.6 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average, it becomes the eighth consecutive month to break its own previous record. These figures follow the trend of 2023, which was declared the warmest year on record, with temperatures reaching 1.4 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average.

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