NOAA climate data The numbers are in. 2024 was the hottest year on record, and global average temperatures were up 1.5℃ compared to pre-industrial levels. This increase is what scientists have been saying we must avoid if at all possible, and now that we’re here, we’re seeing our world change in ways that make forecasting the weather exceedingly more difficult, and make keeping us all alive somehow even more difficult than predicting the weather… As a reminder, a change in the average means that some places could have gone down 10 degrees while others went up 20 degrees. We have had...