Glasgow: The years from 2015 to 2021 are on track to become the hottest seven in the record, said the world meteorological organization on Sunday, warning that the planet towards “uncharted regions”.
WMO conditions Introduction The climate report, launched as the COP26 UN Climate Conference opened, said that global warming from greenhouse gas emissions threatened “extensive repertcussions for the current and future generation”.
Based on data for the first nine months of this year, WMO said the 2021 might be between the fifth and seventh year on the record – despite the cooling effects of the La Nina phenomenon which lowered the temperature at the beginning of the year.
“From the depths of the sea to the top of the mountain, from glacier feers for endless extreme weather events, ecosystems and communities throughout the world are being destroyed,” the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a statement on the report.
He added that the COP26 two-week climate conference “must be a turning point for people and planets”.
WMO found that the average temperature for 2021 is around 1.09 degrees Celsius higher than the pre-industrial level.
And the average temperature for the past 20 years (2002-2021) for the first time exceeded the symbolic threshold 1C above the middle of the 19th century, when humans began burning fossil fuels on industrial scales.
This will “focus the mind of the delegation in COP26 aspiring to maintain a global temperature increase into the boundaries agreed upon in Paris six years ago, said Stephen Belcher, head of scientist in the Met Britain office.
The Paris 2015 agreement sees countries agreeing to sustain global warming on “far below” 2C above the pre-industrial level, and 1.5c if possible.
Since then the world has seen Litani weather disasters including forest fires that destroy recordings throughout Australia and Siberia, Heatwave once a thousand years in North America and extreme rainfall which causes massive floods in Asia, Africa, USA and Europe.
“Extreme events are new norms,” said Secretary General of WMO Petteria Talas.
“There is an installation of scientific evidence that some of them bear traces of human-induced climate change.” The state of the climate report is a planetary health snapshot, including temperature, extreme weather, glacier retreat and ice melting.
The sea acidification because the absorption of carbon dioxide by the sea “unprecedented” in at least 26,000 years, WMO said, added that this would reduce the ability of the ocean to take more C02.
Meanwhile, rising sea levels – mainly due to expansion of warm seawater and disbursement of ice on land – is in a new high.
This report was “shocking and very disturbing and in-depth wake up calls to world leaders that time had been up to speak”, said Jonathan Bamber, director of the center of Glaciology Bristol, in a comment to the Center for Science Media.
He said about the current trajectory, sea level rise could exceed two meters (more than six feet) in 2100, which could displace around 630 million people worldwide.
“The consequences of it are unimaginable,” said Bamber.
“What is needed now is a profound and comprehensive action by every country and the state actor further limits and solving a deeper climate.”
The last seven years on track to be the hottest in Note: United Nations
