CAC on 2024 Breaking Record for Hottest Year

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 10, 2025
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CAC on 2024 Breaking Record for Hottest Year

The Trump administration’s plans to roll back climate protections would worsen the climate crisis.

WASHINGTON – Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that 2024 was the world’s hottest year on record. Below is a statement from Margie Alt, director of the Climate Action Campaign:

“It’s official: After sweating through what was the world’s hottest year on record in 2023, 2024 was even hotter. The impact is clear, ranging from months of 110° temperatures in Arizona to deadly storms like Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and Florida to the dry winter weather that is helping fuel Southern California’s devastating wildfires. Climate pollution is responsible for the increased heat and is fueling more frequent and more intense extreme weather – and as this latest broken record shows, it’s only getting worse.

“We cannot afford to continue down this path. We must do everything we can to reduce climate pollution and invest in the clean energy we need to power the nation and the world. But the Trump administration has pledged to attack and roll back some of our country’s most important climate programs in history – investments and pollution standards that are working to ensure that there’s an end to these broken heat records. Congress must stand strong against attacks on clean energy and climate investments and other key climate programs. The last decade has brought us 10 of the warmest years on record and some of the most devastating weather our country and the world has ever seen. Unless we continue to act boldly to limit climate pollution – and oppose the incoming administration’s promised rollbacks – the next 10 years will bring more of the same, and our families and our environment will pay the price.”