2024 marked a grim milestone for Earth with unprecedented climate change impacts. Record-breaking heat, CO2 levels, and global carbon emissions fuelled extreme weather events worldwide, including devastating hurricanes, wildfires, and floods. Scientists warn that if emissions continue unchecked, ecological tipping points like the collapse of the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Amazon rainforest's transformation into savanna could be reached within 15 years.
The most important Earth news in 2024 was undoubtedly the most depressing: Climate change wreaked havoc around the globe, indirectly causing flooding, drought, wildfires and other extreme weather events.
All that warming has had disastrous impacts on weather around the globe. The year started with one of the strongest El Niño events on record. That led to a devastating hurricane season that culminated in the deadliest storm to hit the continental U.S. in decades. El Niño also fueled a severe drought in the Amazon. This prolonged drought made the rainforest"more flammable" — an impact that led to the worst wildfire season in nearly 20 years.
In October, scientists penned an open letter warning about the risk posed by the collapse of a key Atlantic current. In it, researchers urged policymakers to address the threat posed by the weakening Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation — a giant ocean conveyor belt that transports heat to the Northern Hemisphere, and the breakdown of which could cause temperatures across Europe to plummet.
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