Ankush Banerjee12 Feb 2024, 17:54
Last month, for the first time in recorded history, Earth endured the 12th consecutive month with temperatures 1.5°C hotter than the pre-industrial era, shattering the hopes of those few extreme climate optimists. The Copernicus' Climate Change Service's January 2024 report confirmed this alarming trend, putting into a numerical perspective a year marred thoroughly by a super El Niño, devastating droughts, scorching temperatures, and deadly wildfires.