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The last two years have shattered records for global average temperatures, pushing past a critical threshold for the first time in history, according to a report released Friday by Europe’s climate monitoring agency. The findings arrive amid escalating calls from the United Nations for “trail-blazing” climate initiatives to stave off the worst impacts of a warming planet. In a stark warning, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed that global average surface temperatures in 2024 rose 1.55 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial…