2024 Becomes The Hottest Year, Scientists Urge The Public To This

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JAKARTA - European climate service, Copernicus, announced that 2024 was the hottest year ever recorded.

In 2024 the first time the average earth's temperature exceeds 1.5 degrees Celsius, which is the heat limit set by world leaders under the Paris Climate Agreement.

Responding to the split record, the geothermal line diagram showing global annual temperature changes since 1850 was updated.

Climate science professor Ed Hawkins, who created a new line diagram, said the record breaking in 2024 was a sign of vigilance, that many things needed to be done to tackle climate change.

"We have the ability to change things, but we have to work hard," said Ed Hawkins, quoted by the BBC, Sunday, January 12, 2025.

New temperature line diagrams use red colours for hotter and bluer years for cooler years.

Hawkins said the diagram was designed to make more people talk about climate change and encourage action.

Hawkins warned that the 2024 temperature record is a sign of concern and extreme weather events.

Such as the ongoing fires in Los Angeles and floods in Valencia, Spain, in the fall of last year, which are predicted to worsen.

"We see that the heat waves around the world are getting hotter, we will see the heavier rainfall that will increase the risk of flooding. I am worried that children and grandchildren of future kits will have to live a life with a worse consequence if they don't take action in the next few years," he explained.

Professor Ed Hawkins said although it was difficult to address the adverse effects of climate change, there was still hope.

He appealed to the public to start thinking about how the heating of the room works, and what mode of transportation they choose, as well as what food they eat.

We have the ability to change the situation. The choices we can determine for ourselves can provide change and then in the future we can see, we can say, yes we did the necessary actions at that time, "he concluded.