NASA announced 2024 as the hottest year in history – RCO News Agency

According to RCO News Agency, quoted by LA Times, according to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, this is the 11th year in a row that a new heat record has been set. In this regard, he says: Considering the unprecedented increase in temperature and large fires that are currently threatening the state of California, the importance of understanding the changes of the planet Earth has never been so critical.

The American NOAA organization estimates the average global air temperature in 2024 AD was 1.46 degrees Celsius higher than the average temperature during the time of pre-industrialization of the Earth. On the other hand, NASA estimates that this index was 1.47 degrees Celsius. In 2023, NASA estimated that the air temperature was 1.36 degrees Celsius higher than the average of this index before the industrialization of the planet.

Considering the possibility of error in NASA and NOAA weather models, it is estimated that the average increase in the earth’s temperature will be 2024 AD was 1.5 degrees Celsius. Meanwhile, other organizations’ calculations of the increase in air temperature last year exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius.

The “Berkeley Earth” Institute as well as the “Copernicus Climate Change Service” of the European Union announced in 2024 AD, the earth’s temperature was slightly more than 1.6 degrees Celsius higher than the average of this index before the industrialization of the earth. On the other hand, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization also estimated this index at 1.55 degrees Celsius and the British MET Organization estimated it at 1.53 degrees Celsius.

Meanwhile, researchers have shown that in recent years, global warming has led to more intense and widespread fires in the American West and even longer fire seasons.

Massive wildfires in Southern California started after a sudden change from wet to very dry weather, which researchers said increased the risk of wildfires. Rapid changes in wet-to-dry and dry-to-wet climates that can trigger wildfires, floods and other hazards are becoming more frequent and more intense as global temperatures rise, researchers have shown.