The UN’s devastating forecast for the next 5 years: it will be the hottest period ever recorded

A mix between the impact of greenhouse gases and an unusual El Niño phenomenon will make the period 2023-2027 very likely the hottest ever recorded on our planet.

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This has been warned by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in its latest report, presented on May 17.

“There is a 98% chance that at least one of the next five years, and the five-year period as a whole, will be the hottest ever recorded,” says the UN climate agency.

According to estimates arrived at after analyzing data from the six main meteorological stations on the planet, there is a 66% probability that the average annual temperature of the Earth’s surface registers a variation of +1.5 °C.

What does this mean? That the average temperature on the planet would reach the limit imposed in the climate agreement signed in 2015 in Paris, which sought to stop the devastating effects of global warming.

The United Nations agency has even warned that the planet could have to withstand, at some very particular moments, temperatures up to 1.8 degrees higher than the average for the period 1850-1900.

Within all the bad, however, there is a little good news: in this case the impact will only be temporary, according to the WMO.

These data “do not mean that we will permanently exceed the 1.5 °C threshold of the Paris Agreement, which refers to long-term warming over several years,” explained the agency’s secretary general, Petteri Taalas, in a statement. release.

On the other hand, that does not mean that we are facing a new climate alarm of the many that continue to sound -increasingly loud and frequent- while waiting for concrete actions to be taken to help reverse a bleak future.

Among the most notorious effects, the WMO predicts, will be the intense rains in the African region of the Sahel, as well as northern Europe, Alaska and Siberia.

At the same time, however, it is feared that in the extreme north of the Earth the thermal anomaly could lead to an increase in temperatures three times greater than in the rest of the world.

As for this part of the world, the WMO fears that intense droughts would directly affect parts of the Amazon, Central America, Indonesia and Australia.

In the following interactive prepared by Trade Learn more about the WMO report, its relevance to previous records, and the expected effects in different regions of the world in the coming years.

Source: Elcomercio

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