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As Los Angeles combusts, 2024 is declared Earth’s hottest on record

By Andrew King, Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
David Karoly, Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne

This record-breaking heat is primarily driven by humanity’s burning of fossil fuels. The warming won’t stop until we reach net-zero emissions.

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