Global Warming 2024 Update. Global warming surpassed 1.5 degrees celsius over the past 12 months for the first time on record, new data shows, breaching a critical threshold that, if it. An analysis of global temperatures and precipitation, placing the data into a historical perspective.

Every fraction of a degree of global heating impacts the future of life on earth. The global mean temperature in january 2024 was 1.62 ± 0.07 °c (2.91 ± 0.12 °f) above the 1850 to 1900 average, and the seventh largest monthly anomaly.