https://doi.org/10.51514/JSTR.7.4.2025.11-20
Aradhana Verma
ABSTRACT
The warmer air not only elevates the temperature but fasten up vaporization of water from oceans too, which led to increase in precipitation, sometimes creating strong storms, flood that bring hilarious destruction of population and nature. This warming was driven by record-high greenhouse gas concentrations, including carbon dioxide and methane, and contributed to extreme weather events worldwide. The persistent increase of greenhouse gas concentrations has co-occurred with a regular increase in world-wide temperatures, making the last ten years, the top ten hottest years on record.
It has been observed that temperature change is not consistent crosswise the earth, but more areas were found in hotter condition than in cooling. Also, the rate of warming has speeded up in last few decades. As per the Annual Climate Report of NOAA 2024, the temperature of land areas and water bodies both has raised up to 0.11 degrees Fahrenheit i.e. 0.06 degrees Celsius per decade since 1850. 2024 was confirmed as the hottest year on record globally by organizations like the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), surpassing the previous record set by 2023.
Keywords: Greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane, hottest year 2024, temperature, climate change etc.