WMO warns: The world is already overheating dangerously!
The world is already heating up dangerously and climate change is accelerating, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says, as the UN's COP29 Climate Summit kicked off on Monday in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku.
The WMO's latest report on the state of the global climate for 2024 shows that the last decade was the warmest on record.
It's exactly what scientists predicted, according to Secretary General Celeste Saulo.
"It's not a surprise. And we have to admit that scientists have noted this for many years, more than 30 years actually, and that what's surprising is the slowness to react," Saulo said.
The WMO report follows the latest data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), which last week declared that 2024 will be the hottest year on record.
UN weather experts at the COP29 summit in Baku say global temperatures have already risen by 1.3 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial average. The world is experiencing unprecedented sea surface temperatures, melting ice caps, droughts and severe flooding, as recently seen in Spain.
"I think that people are not prepared for events of this nature, that there is a terrible challenge of how to put together protocols that allow people to prepare and react appropriately to the intensity of the phenomena that we are facing," he explained Saulo.
Climate experts and participants on the first day of the COP29 Summit agreed that the outlook is that grim greenhouse gas emissions may be declining in Europe, but they are still rising around the globe.
Whether CO2 is released in Beijing, Baku or Berlin, the result is the same: more heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere lead to higher temperatures, affecting everyone around the world.
Delegations from countries around the world are expected to come together to try to limit greenhouse gas emissions and, ultimately, global warming.
Last month, average temperatures in Europe reached 10.83°C—1.23°C above the 1991–2020 average, making October the fifth warmest on record and the second warmest globally.
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