@guardian: This is what climatologist Dr Friederike Otto said as newly published EU data revealed that climate breakdown drove the annual global temperature above the internationally agreed 1.5C target for the first time last year. This increase is supercharging extreme weather and causing “misery to millions of people”, added Dr Samantha Burgess, deputy director at EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). The Paris agreement target of 1.5C is measured over a decade or two, so a single year above that level does not mean the target has been missed, but does show the climate emergency continues to intensify. Every year in the past decade has been one of the 10 hottest, in records that go back to 1850. “A year of extreme weather showed just how dangerous life is at 1.5C. The Valencia floods, US hurricanes, the Philippines typhoons and Amazon drought are just four disasters last year that were worsened by climate change. There are many, many more,” said Dr Otto, who is the co-founder of World Weather Attribution, which studies the role of the climate crisis in extreme weather events. In December analysis by the group found that the average person was exposed to an additional six weeks of dangerously hot days in 2024, intensifying the fatal impact of heatwaves around the world. “The world doesn’t need to come up with a magical solution to stop things from getting worse in 2025,” Otto said. “We know exactly what we need to do to transition away from fossil fuels, halt deforestation and make societies more resilient.” This data comes as recent analysis by Oxfam GB revealed that less than a week and a half into 2025, the world’s richest 1% have already used up their fair share of the global carbon budget for the next twelve months. Find out more about how emissions caused by wealthiest 1% so far this year would take someone from poorest 50% three years to create by heading to the link in bio #climate #environment

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