Baku: The UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has again signalled the highest alarm level in the face of the speed of climate change within a single generation, in presenting its report on global temperatures for 2024. The average global temperature came in at a record 1.54 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level between 1850 and 1900, the WMO reported at the UN Climate Conference in Baku. According to Oman News Agency, WMO researchers are not confident that much will change by the end of the year (2024). The 2015 Paris Climate Accords set a target of limiting the rise in the long-term average temperature to 1.5 degrees, with the emphasis on "long-term." According to the WMO, the rise is currently 1.3 degrees by this standard. "The record-breaking rainfall and flooding, rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones, deadly heat, relentless drought and raging wildfires that we have seen in different parts of the world this year are unfortunately our new reality and a foretaste of our future," WMO Se cretary-General Celeste Saulo said.
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