China: 2024 was the hottest year for the country for decades

2024 was the year the highest temperatures were recorded after data were kept in , announced a competent public service , with a background to the proliferation of extreme weather phenomena worldwide due to it . China, which releases the largest amount of greenhouse gases, is responsible according to climate crisis scientists. However, it remains behind the US and other countries in terms of emissions per capita. CORVERSE “In 2024, the average national temperature was 10.92° Celsius, or 1.03 degrees extra on an annual basis. This is the hottest year since 1961, the date full observation records began to be kept,” the Chinese weather service said through its website. “The last four years are the hottest ever recorded. The hottest ten years since 1961 were all recorded in the 21st century”, he clarified. China had already reported last year that July and August 2024 were the hottest since 1961. This Chinese summer was marked by extreme weather phenomena, especially waves of heat in much of its northern and western regions. CORVERSE Climate change caused extreme weather phenomena and heat-records last year, the World Weather Organization (WMO) stressed on Monday. Global warming, largely attributed to fossil fuel combustion, has serious consequences, especially because of the accumulation of extra heat in the atmosphere and in the seas. The warmer air may contain larger amounts of evaporated water, while the warmer oceans mean that greater evaporation is recorded — and these two factors can lead to torrential rains and severe storms. The effects may be large, deadly and increasingly costly, as they involve extensive material and destroy crops. In China, dozens of people died in the floods that occurred last year. In May, heavy rains caused the collapse of a highway in the southern part of the country, resulting in the loss of 48 people. In Cantona (south), residents lived extremely long summer in 2024. According to state media, the average temperature exceeded 22° Celsius for 240 days, thus breaking the previous 234-day record, recorded in 1994. China, like the rest of the world, is facing a great increase in average temperatures and waves of heat, drought and flooding, more and more often. The country’s government has promised that CO2 emissions will reach their peak in 2030 and achieve climate neutrality in 2060. It is actively, systematically and widely trying to increase the use of renewable energy sources to achieve the objective. In 2024, deadly floods also swept Spain and Kenya. Many extreme weather phenomena have also hit the USA and the Philippines. A great deal of drought and forest fires have also hit southern America. Extreme weather events cost thousands of people their lives last year.