The UN talked about the impact of record temperatures in 2024 on the melting of ice

Record levels of high temperatures in 2024 accelerated the melting of glaciers and sea ice and led to rising sea levels and bringing the world closer to a key warming threshold. This was announced on Tuesday, March 18, by the UN meteorological body the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

"The WMO, in its annual climate report, reported that last year the average annual temperature was 1.55°C above pre—industrial levels, surpassing the previous record in 2023 by 0.1 °C," the Reuters news agency said.

The report says that other factors could have influenced the global temperature rise last year, including changes in the solar cycle, a powerful volcanic eruption and a decrease in the amount of cooling aerosols. Ocean temperatures also reached the highest level ever recorded.

In the 2015 Paris Agreement, the countries agreed to aim to limit temperature increases to 1.5°C above the 1850-1900 average.

Abnormal weather awaits Russians in spring 2025: forecast by month, for Easter and May

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Prior to that, on November 2 last year, Russian scientists reported that the area of ice sheets around the world is gradually decreasing and, as a result, some ice islands may disappear. They noted that the melting of the ice leads to an increase in the water level in the ocean, they desalinate it.