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 water cycle “spinning out of balance”: UN meteorological agency
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The World Meteorological Organization said on Thursday that the hydrological cycle was increasingly out of balance due to climate change and made a call for a fundamental policy shift towards better monitoring. An aerial view shows the Yangtze River that is approaching record-low water levels during a regional drought in Chongqing, China, on […]
Libya hunts for those to blame for thousands of flood deaths
Derna, Libya Reuters Libyan authorities demanded an investigation on Thursday into whether human failings were to blame for thousands of deaths in the worst natural disaster in the country’s modern history, as survivors searched for loved ones washed away by floods. A torrent unleashed by a powerful storm burst dams on Sunday night and hurtled […]
July, 2023, set to be world’s hottest month on record
Reuters July, 2023, is set to upend previous heat benchmarks, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday after scientists said it was on track to be the world’s hottest month on record. The UN World Meteorological Organization and European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service also said in a joint statement it was “extremely likely” July, […]
Extreme heatwaves to continue through August, WMO adviser says
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters Heatwaves are expected to persist in a large part of the world throughout August, an adviser on extreme heat said on Friday, following on from record temperatures in recent weeks. The World Meteorological Organization said earlier this week it expected temperatures in North America, Asia, North Africa and the Mediterranean to be […]
“Early warnings save lives”: Disaster deaths decline but damage rises on hotter planet
MD TAHMID ZAMI and MEGAN ROWLING, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report that early warning systems are saving lives but economic losses are increasing as climate change fuels more extreme weather events…
“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 […]
Pace of rise in global sea level has doubled – UN climate report
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Global sea levels are rising at more than double the pace they did in the first decade of measurements in 1993-2002 and hit a new record high last year, the World Meteorological Organization said on Friday, warning that the trend would continue for millennia. Extreme glacier melt and record ocean heat levels – […]
Drought threatens starvation in Horn of Africa, UN, agencies say
London, UKReuters Millions of people face severe hunger in the Horn of Africa as the worst drought in more than 40 years could extend to a fifth consecutive failed rainy season, the United Nations and humanitarian agencies warned on Tuesday. The March-May rainy season appears likely to be the driest on record, devastating livelihoods and […]
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 […]