Nobel Prize winning climatologistFilippo 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 in 2007 along with other members of the UNIntergovernmental 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.
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