The United Nations is doing everything it can to save the credibility of the Paris Agreement – does Watt support this?

Article by Eric Worrell

“…Some years have exceeded the 1.5 degree limit…meaning that we need to work harder to get on the right track. …”

Press release | WMO confirms 2024 to be warmest year on record, approximately 1.55°C above pre-industrial levels

WMO confirms that 2024 will be the hottest year on record, about 1.55°C above pre-industrial levels

• The past decade, 2015-2024, has been the hottest on record
• We may see the first time global average temperatures exceed 1.5°C warmer than the 1850-1900 average
• Comprehensive WMO global data using six international data sets
• Abnormally high land and ocean surface temperatures and ocean heat in 2024
• The Paris Agreement's long-term temperature targets are not over yet, but are in serious danger

GENEVA (WMO) – The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed that 2024 will be the hottest year on record, based on six international data sets.

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“Today's assessment by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) proves once again that global warming is a cold hard fact,” said United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

“Breaking through the 1.5 degree limit in individual years does not mean that the long-term goal has been achieved. This means we need to fight harder to stay on track. High temperatures in 2024 will require groundbreaking climate action in 2025,” he said. “There is still time to avert the worst climate catastrophe. But leaders must act now,” he said.

WMO provides temperature assessments based on multiple data sources to support international climate monitoring and provide authoritative information for the United Nations climate change negotiation process. The data sets come from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), the Japan Meteorological Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the UK Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climate Research Center Collaboration (HadCRUT) and Berkeley Earth.

“Climate history is playing out before our eyes. We’re not just breaking records for one or two years, but a whole decade-long series. And with that comes devastating extreme weather, rising sea levels and melting ice, all of which is driven by record levels of greenhouse gases caused by human activity,” said Celeste Solo, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization.

“It needs to be emphasized that just because the temperature exceeds 1.5°C in a single year does not mean that we have failed to achieve the long-term temperature target of the Paris Agreement.which is measured over decades rather than a single year. However, it is important to recognize that every fraction of a degree of warming counts. Whether warming is below or above 1.5°C, every increase in global warming increases its impact on our lives, our economy and our planet,” said Celeste Saulo.

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Learn more: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2025/01/press-release-wmo-confirms-2024-as-warmest-year-on-record-at-about-1-55c- above – degree of pre-industrialization/

Does anyone feel the end?

It's also interesting that scientists claim their established scientific models didn't see it coming.

Climate models can't explain 2023's huge heat anomaly — and we may be in uncharted territory

Taking all known factors into account, the Earth warmed 0.2°C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed.

Gavin Schmidt

When I took over as director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, I inherited a program to track temperature changes since 1880. Somewhat worryingly, no year has confounded climate scientists' forecasting abilities more than 2023.

Over the past nine months, average land and ocean surface temperatures have been 0.2°C above the previous record each month, a huge gap on a planetary scale. A general warming trend is expected due to rising greenhouse gas emissions, but this sudden high temperature greatly exceeds predictions made by statistical climate models that rely on past observations. Many reasons for this discrepancy have been proposed, but so far no combination has made our theory consistent with what happened.

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Learn more: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00816-z

2023-24 seems to completely disrupt the planned climate narrative. The United Nations and climate scientists all look ready to squeeze every tiny step forward towards 1.5 degrees Celsius, and then suddenly we're over it and they have nothing to say. The Antarctic and Greenland ice caps have not slipped into the sea, the Arctic ice caps are still there, and food is still available in supermarkets.

There have been feeble attempts to come up with a 2.0th century fear narrative that doesn't seem to gain much traction. In the wake of the Covid lockdown collapse, the sudden revelation that the 1.5C hype was just as false as the Covid lockdown narrative appears to have killed much of the credibility of climate alarmists.

2025 is going to be a very good year for climate skeptics.

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