Global Courant 2023-04-21 18:33:20
The United Nations climate agency’s Global State of Climate 2022 report describes menacing weather conditions costing billions of dollars worldwide.
The UN report identifies record-breaking temperatures in 2022: the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and New Zealand are experiencing marked heat levels that have not been recorded in any country. (AP)
Looking at the weather for 2022 through months of analysis, the World Meteorological Organization said that last year was indeed as bad as when people walked through it.
And that’s actually as bad as it gets – until more warming up Activated
deadly floods, drought And heat wave It became a worldwide hit, costing billions of dollars. Global ocean temperature and acidity levels have reached record levels, and Antarctic sea ice and European Alps glaciers It reached record low levels, according to the United Nations climate agency’s Global Climate State 2022 report released Friday.
Global sea height and heat retention while levels were higher before human civilization carbon dioxide And methane reached the highest modern amounts ever recorded in air. Key glaciers, which scientists use as a health check for the world, have shrunk by more than 1.3 meters (51 inches) in just one year, and for the first time in history, Swiss glaciers are free of snow during the summer melt season, the report said.
Global heat and other weather records go back to 1850.
#Climate change In 2022, the shocks increased. Ocean temperature and sea level rose to record levels. Antarctic sea ice has hit a new low. Extreme glacial melting in Europe. #StateOfClimate The report highlights the enormous socio-economic cost of droughts, floods and heatwaves. pic.twitter.com/Vnrbe9M8Xl
— World Meteorological Organization (@WMO) 21 April 2023
Last year was close to the warmest year on record, ranking fifth or sixth warmest depending on measurement techniques, but not exactly this year. But the last eight years have been the hottest eight years on record worldwide. Despite the rare third year of La Nina, a natural temporary cooling in parts of the Pacific Ocean that changed weather around the world, the world has maintained this temperature.
The United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and New Zealand recorded their warmest years.
“In 2022, sustained drought in East Africa, record rainfall in Pakistan, and record heat waves in China and Europe affected tens of millions, led to food insecurity, increased mass migration and cost billions of dollars in losses and damage.” said WMO Secretary General Petteri Taalas in a statement.
China’s heat wave According to the 55-page report, it was the longest and most comprehensive on that country’s record, not only the hottest summer on record, but also breaking the old record by more than 0.5 degrees Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit).
Africa’s drought displaced While there are more than 1.7 million people in Somalia and Ethiopia, devastating flood in pakistan It displaced nearly 8 million people – which at one point flooded a third of the country – according to the report.
Source: AP
