World to hit 1.4 degrees of warming in record hot 2023
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters With a month to run, 2023 will reach global warming of about 1.4 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, adding to “a deafening cacophony” of broken climate records, the World Meteorological Organization said on Thursday. The WMO’s provisional State of the Global Climate report confirms that 2023 will be the warmest year on […]
“Global boiling”: Billions already suffer in heat over 1.5 degree limit
Many people live with temperatures above the Paris Agreement’s ceiling for global warming as land heats faster than the oceans. ALISTER DOYLE, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Sight-Seeing: Global warming is here and it is getting worse
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE says, in an article first published on Religion News Service, that we are like frogs in a pot of water being slowly cooked and we don’t have the sense to get out of the pot, let alone turn off the heat…
Essay: What should the US Catholic bishops talk about at their meeting in Florida?
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says topics foremost in the public’s mind are not on the agenda at the bishop’s meeting in Orlando…
“More likely than not” world will soon see 1.5 degrees of warming – WMO
London, UKReuters For the first time ever, global temperatures are now more likely than not to breach 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming within the next five years, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday. This does not mean the world would cross the long-term warming threshold of 1.5 degrees above preindustrial levels set out in […]
World’s oceans at most acidic level in 26,000 years, climate report warns
Reuters The world’s oceans grew to their warmest and most acidic levels on record last year, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday, as United Nations officials warned that war in Ukraine threatened global climate commitments. Oceans saw the most striking extremes as the WMO detailed a range of turmoil wrought by climate change in […]
World could see 1.5 degrees of warming in next five years, WMO reports
London, UKReuters The world faces a 50 per cent chance of warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, if only briefly, by 2026, the World Meteorological Organization said on Monday. That does not mean the world would be crossing the long-term warming threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), which scientists have set […]
“Now or never”: Only severe emissions cuts will avoid climate extremes – UN report
Reuters Drastic cuts to fossil fuel use. Growing forests and eating less meat. These are just some of the actions needed in this decade to contain global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures, a major report by the UN climate science agency said Monday. Despite climate change warnings issued by the Intergovernmental Panel […]
Last year was the world’s sixth-warmest on record – US scientists
Reuters Last year ranked as the sixth-warmest year on record, causing extreme weather events around the world and adding to evidence that the globe is in a long-term warming trend, according to an analysis released on Thursday by two US Government agencies. The data compiled by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA […]
EU scientists say 2021 was world’s fifth-hottest year on record
Brussels, BelgiumReuters Last year was the world’s fifth hottest on record, while levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere hit new highs in 2021, European Union scientists said. The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a report on Monday that the last seven years were the world’s warmest “by a clear margin” […]