Like every year, the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (Ecmwf), an independent European intergovernmental organisation, presented data relating to the Copernicus space programme, the European Union’s flagship program for Earth observation, the monitoring of the atmosphere and climate change. The situation, in the almost generalized indifference, is increasingly dramatic. 2024 has been confirmed as the warmest year on record since 1850, with a global average temperature of 15.1°C, beating the previous warmest year 2023 by 0.12°C. This places it at 1.6°C above an estimate of the pre-industrial level, making it the first calendar year to exceed the 1.5°C threshold.