A new climate report emphasizes that not only was 2024 the hottest year on record, but it may have also been the warmest in at least 125,000 years. … The report comes just a week before the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference in Brazil, where world leaders, scientists and organizations will gather to focus on the implementation of the 2015 Paris climate agreement and how to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Exceeding that 1.5-degree increase … is expected to lead to increasingly frequent and dangerous weather events like heat waves, droughts, wildfires and flooding.

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