April 2024 was the warmest April globally since at least 1940, and the 11th month in a row when temperatures records were shattered in a grim reminder of the runaway crisis global warming appears to have become. According to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, the average surface air temperature in April was 15.03°C, which was 0.67°C above the 1991–2020 average for April and 0.14°C higher than the previous record set in April 2016. The month was 1.58°C warmer than the estimated April average in the 1850–1900, the pre-industrial reference period, surpassing the 1.5-degree threshold that experts had said would be devastating for the world if it becomes the new baseline.

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