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Hello and thank you for downloading the more or less podcast.

We're the programme that looks at the numbers in the news and I'm Charlotte MacDonald.

Today, we're lining up the fireworks to bring you more numbers of the year.

And this time, they're your own picks.

We asked you to send in your standout numbers of 2024,

the figures and stats that have caught your eye

and which feels significant at this particular moment in time.

Let's start with our first number from Gary Henderson.

My number of the year is 1.62, which is the average number of degrees above the pre-industrial level globally, on average, over the past 12 months.

So, 1.62 degrees. But isn't 1.5 degrees the figure we always hear is the threshold figure when reporting on climate change?

Here's Amanda Maycock, a professor in climate dynamics at the University of Leeds in the UK.

Now in 2015, the governments of the world signed the Paris Agreement,

which set up the targets to limit

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