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The 1.5°C Threshold: Why Your Weather Changed in 2024
Climate • Climate Change • Environment • Global Warming • Extreme Weather
2024: Earth crossed +1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. The result: 41 extra days of dangerous heat, 3,700 deaths from extreme weather, and the deadliest US hurricane since Katrina. The Paris Agreement threshold isn't a future problem anymore. It's this year's weather.
Crossing 1.5°C isn't the end of the story. It's the moment 176 years of data became lived experience. The generation feeling 41 extra heat days is the first with the motivation to truly act. Every tenth of a degree we prevent saves lives. The work doesn't end at a threshold. It begins there.