Overview [in “State of the Climate in 2024”]
For the second year in a row, record-high global surface temperatures were set in 2024, according to all six global temperature datasets assessed in this report. The last time consecutive years set records was in 2015 and 2016, when, similarly, a strong El Niño boosted global temperatures. The last 10 years (2015–24) are now the warmest 10 in the instrumental record, warmer than 2011-20 and hence “more likely than not warmer than any multi-century period after the last interglacial, roughly 125,000 years ago” (Gulev et al. 2021).
DUNN Robert J. H;
BLANNIN Josh;
WILLETT Kate M.;
GOBRON Nadine;
MORRIS Gary A.;
2025-11-06
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
JRC142866
1520-0477 (online),
https://ametsoc.net/sotc2024/02GlobalClimate_SotC2024.pdf,
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/106/8/BAMS-D-25-0102.1.xml#d6410912e3894,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC142866,
https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-25-0102.1 (online),
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