Overview

• Earth System Science Data study finds global temperatures rose 1.52 °C above preindustrial levels in 2024 at a record rate of 0.27 °C per decade.
• Global Carbon Project data show oceans absorbed 26 % of CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels and land-use change between 2014 and 2023, reducing atmospheric warming but pushing 40 % of surface and 60 % of upper waters toward critical acidification thresholds.
• University of Sheffield researchers reconstruct past deglaciation showing nearly 1 m per century sea-level rise at its peak and 38 m over 8 000 years, indicating unchecked warming could submerge Sylt and Kiel in 500 years, Hamburg in 600 years, and turn Düsseldorf into a North Sea coastal town.
• Deutscher Wetterdienst forecasts up to 39 °C across Germany this week, extending an intense heatwave that has strained public health and infrastructure.
• Climate researchers and viewers accused ARD presenter Stefan Mross of downplaying the heatwave by calling it “just summer,” with critics labeling his show “Volksverblödung” for trivializing the crisis.