The clear signs of human-induced climate change reached new heights in 2024, with some of the consequences being irreversible over hundreds if not thousands of years, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which also underlined the massive economic and social upheavals from extreme weather.

2024 has been confirmed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) to be the warmest year on record globally, and the first calendar year that the average global temperature exceeded 1.5°C above its pre-industrial level.

The Met Office is warning that climate change is causing a dramatic increase in the frequency of temperature extremes and number of temperature records the UK experiences.

Antarctic sea ice has likely reached its minimum extent for the year, at 1.99 million square kilometers (768,000 square miles) on February 20, 2024, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Antarctic sea ice extent has reached a new record low – the sea ice is more than 1 million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) below the previous record low maximum set in 1986.

Listen to today’s press conference by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to present the findings of its landmark report Climate change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. The press conference references changes which will be “irreversible in our lifetime.”

The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released today is warning that climate change is widespread, rapid - and intensifying - with sea level rise of up to half a meter "irreversible."

A new study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research is warning the major Atlantic ocean current system might be approaching a critical threshold - a potential collapse of the system could have severe consequences for weather systems worldwide.