This year 'virtually certain' to be hottest on record, finds EU space programme

Copernicus Climate Change Service says 2024 marks 'a new milestone' and should raise ambitions at Cop29 summitIt is "virtually certain" that 2024 will be the hottest year on record, the European Union's space programme has found.The prognosis comes the week before diplomats meet at the Cop29 climate summit and a day after a majority of voters in the US, the biggest historical polluter of planet-heating gas, chose to make Donald Trump president. Continue reading...