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This article documents events, research findings, scientific and technological advances, and human actions to measure, predict, mitigate, and adapt to the effects of global warming and climate change—during the year 2024.
James Hansen testifying about climate change before United States Congress in 1988. In the mid-1970s, climate change shifted from a solely scientific issue to a point of political concern. The formal political discussion of global environment began in June 1972 with the UN Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE) in Stockholm. [1]
Robinson joined SRI as a climate researcher in 1947 and continued on there until taking up a professorship at Washington State University in 1972 where he remained until 1985. In his capacity as leading environmental scientist at SRI in 1968, his report on global warming entitled Sources, abundance, and fate of gaseous atmospheric pollutants ...
It was an uphill battle for climate action in 2024, with glimmers of hope amid halting progress.
It is projected that 2024 will be even hotter, as the expected temperature rise in 2024 results from a combination of the long-term global warming trend coupled with this year's El Niño effect.
Provisional figures for 2024 from the Met Office showed an average temperature for the UK of 9.78C, 0.64C above the 1991-2020 average and putting it in fourth place for the warmest year following ...
2021—IPCC's 6th report states that the science of climate change is irrefutable and that irreversible changes have already occurred. [37] 2021—Japan announced it will release 1.25 million tons of treated wastewater contaminated by the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean.
Find out why Michael Crow made the 2024 TIME100 Climate list