Everyone agrees: 2024 the hottest year since the thermometer was invented
arstechnica.com

... Over the last 24 hours or so, the major organizations that keep track of global temperatures have released figures for 2024, and all of them agree: 2024 was the warmest year yet recorded, joining 2023 as an unusual outlier in terms of how rapidly things heated up. At least two of the organizations, the European Union's Copernicus and Berkeley Earth, place the year at about 1.6 C above pre-industrial temperatures, marking the first time that the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5 has been exceeded.

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration both place the mark at slightly below 1.5 C over pre-industrial temperatures (as defined by the 1850"1900 average). However, that difference largely reflects the uncertainties in measuring temperatures during that period rather than disagreement over 2024. ...