In 2024, human-caused climate change added 41 extra days of dangerous heat worldwide, worsening extreme weather events like heatwaves, droughts, and cyclones. The year likely set heat records, disproportionately affecting vulnerable regions and causing numerous, often unreported, deaths
News of a likely second year of record heat comes a day after Republican Donald Trump, who called climate change a "hoax" and promised to boost oil drilling and production
