(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 8 - Nobel Prize winning climatologist
Filippo Giorgi told ANSA Thursday that while 2023 had just been
declared the hottest year ever on record, it could be surpassed
by this year.
"2023 was the hottest year ever, as I predicted in March 2023;
2024 could surpass that record and become the hottest year ever,
or be the second hottest", said Giorgi, who won the Nobel for
peace n 2007 along with other members of the UN
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Giorgi said it was "unrealistic" to limit global warming within
the 1.5 degree threshold as called for by the Paris Agreement,
saying the threshold should be lower.
"Climate change involves water, loss of biodiversity, it
involves problems in agriculture, in coastal areas, I don't know
if we are equipped, even culturally, to deal with it, it takes
little to trigger an economic crisis", he added. (ANSA).
'2024 could be the hottest year' climatologist tells ANSA
High risk for farming,water, coastlines says Nobel winner Giorgi