Climate Change Issue 2024 List. Drawing on the findings of 234 scientists on the physical science of climate change, 270 scientists on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change, and 278. Global warming surpassed 1.5 degrees celsius over the past 12 months for the first time on record, new data shows, breaching a critical threshold that, if it continues, will.

Extreme weather events, critical change to earth systems — which is a new entrant this year —. The report found the top four most severe risks over the next ten years to be: