The four indicators were greenhouse gas concentrations, sea-level rise, ocean heat, and ocean acidification.
The report highlights how massive storms, flooding events, heatwaves, and droughts last year yet again took a heavy toll on human lives and resulted in hundreds of billions of euro in economic losses. It says much of the ocean experienced at least one strong marine heatwave at some stage last year and that the changes occurring are irreversible on centennial to millennial timescales.The WMO notes that the oceans are more acidic now than they have been for at least 26,000 years.
The report also confirms that the past seven years has been the warmest seven-year period on record with the average temperature now 1.11 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level. The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres referred to a"dismal litany of humanity's failure to tackle climate disruption" and called for urgent action to grab the"low-hanging fruit" of transforming energy systems away from the"dead end" of fossil fuels.
"Years of investment in disaster preparedness means that we are better at saving lives, though economic losses are soaring," he said. Greenland experienced an exceptional mid-August melt event and the first-ever recorded rainfall at Summit Station, the highest point on the Greenland ice sheet at an altitude of 3,216m.Death Valley, California reached 54.4C on 9 July, equaling a similar 2020 value as the highest recorded in the world since at least the 1930s, and Syracuse in Sicily reached 48.8 °C.
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Why are we been blamed and taxed for India's shit government faults.
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Burning fossil fuels—seemed like a good idea at the time.
'Key climate change indicators' are breaking records now are they? When exactly did these start being a thing?
Al Gore ($300M) has been warning us for 25 years….
End of the world is neigh...