There is a “high probability” that 2024 will be the hottest year in history, warns UN

There is a “high probability” that 2024 will be the hottest year on record, after the decade ending in 2023 broke a heat record that pushes the planet “to the brink of the abyss”, warned this Tuesday the UN.

A report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed preliminary data showing that 2023 will see levels of heat unprecedented since there is records.

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Furthermore, the agency UNbased in Geneva, further noted that the decade ending in 2023 was the advance warm up since the beginning of measurements.

I know too”sprayed” multiple records for greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, temperature and sea level rise sea and the retreat of glaciers.

“We can’t say for sure.” but “I would say that there is The high probability what 2024 break the record again in 2023″declared Omar Baddourresponsible for climate monitoring of the WMOduring the presentation of the report.

The secretary general of UN, António Guterresstated that this report shows that the planet “is on the edge of the abyss”.

He year 2023 was the advance warm up of the 174 years that there is records, and the global average near-surface temperature was 1.45°C above the pre-industrial era reference level, according to the WMO.

The secretary general of WMOCeleste Saulo, from Argentina, indicated that the world has never been so close, even temporarily, to the lower limit of 1.5 °C of Paris Agreement 2015 on climate change.

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“Red alert”

“He climate change goes a lot advance in addition to temperatures. What we see in 2023, especially in terms of warming oceans, receding glaciers and the unprecedented loss of Antarctic sea ice, is particularly worrying.”, said Saulo.

For Saul “The climate crisis is the essential challenge facing humanity”and this report constitutes a “alert red”, since they recorded an album in “each one of the climate indicators”.

A marker that WMO What was classified as especially worrying at the end of 2023 is that 90% of the oceans experienced heatwaves at some point during the year. year.

Likewise, the world’s set of reference glaciers suffered the biggest loss of ice recorded since 1950, and the extent of Antarctic sea ice was the advance low measurements.

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Rising sea level

Another worrying factor is that the continuous warming of the oceans, which increases the volume of water, in combination with the melting of glaciers has led in 2023 to a Rising sea level the most since satellite records began in 1993.

O WMO highlighted that in the last ten years the rate of increase in the average level of sea all over the world was advance double the first decade in which this indicator began to be measured.

The organization indicated that these changes generate extreme weather eventssuch as droughts and floods, which have serious repercussions such as displacement of populations, loss of biodiversity and food insecurity.

According to the report of the WMOthe number of people suffering from acute food insecurity in the world has increased from 149 million people before the pandemic covid to 333 million people in 2023.

On a positive note, the agency UN pointed out that there is “a substantial energy transition is underway” and this year Past the capacity to incorporate renewable energy increased by 50% compared to 2022.

For Guterresyet there is an opportunity to keep the planet’s long-term temperature rise below the 1.5ºC limit to “avoid the worst of climate chaos”.

“We know how to do it” he claimed.

Source: Elcomercio

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