After 15 consecutive months of tracking monthly temperature records, NASA confirmed the new temperature peak by recording the extraordinary heat streak. “Once again, the temperature record has been shattered — 2024 was the hottest year since record-keeping began in 1880,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.

Earth's average surface temperature in 2024 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis led by NASA scientists.

Global temperatures in 2024 exceeded 1.5 Celsius above the pre-industrial era for the first time, bringing the world closer to breaching the pledge governments made under the 2015 Paris climate agreement,

It's the first time in recorded history that the planet was above a hoped-for limit to warming for an entire year.