2024 could be the warmest year on record, WMO warns
The strength of the El Niño weather phenomenon coupled with greenhouse gas emissions will likely lead to 2024 breaking the record.
This year could be even warmer than 2023, which broke global warming records by a "huge margin", the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has warned.
The WMO confirmed data that emerged earlier in the week from the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service which found that 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded globally, breaking the previous record set in 2016, and sailing close to the 1.5C global warming limit compared to the pre-industrial age that scientists say is needed to stave off the worst of climate change.
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