Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, several weather monitoring agencies announced Friday.

The year 2024 was the hottest on record and the first to top 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. All 10 of the hottest years have been in the past decade

Scientific agencies around the world confirmed that 2024 surpassed the global temperature record set in 2023 as carbon emissions contribute to extreme weather.

Last year was the planet’s hottest in recorded history, NASA announced, marking two years in a row that global temperatures have shattered records.

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.