The past eight years were the hottest since records began, the United Nations confirmed Thursday, despite the cooling influence of a drawn-out La Nina weather pattern. READ:
GENEVA, Switzerland — The past eight years were the hottest since records began, the United Nations confirmed Thursday, despite the cooling influence of a drawn-out La Nina weather pattern.
“Forest fires are intensifying, hurricanes are getting stronger, droughts are wreaking havoc, sea levels are rising,” Nelson said. The Paris Agreement, agreed by nearly all the world’s nations in 2015, called for capping global warming at 1.5C, which scientists say would limit climate impacts to manageable levels.
The WMO reached its conclusions by consolidating six leading international datasets, including those of NOAA and the European Union’s Copernicus climate monitor .The UN agency highlighted that the warmest eight years on record had all been since 2015, despite consecutive La Nina events since 2020.Last year was therefore “just” the fifth or sixth hottest year ever recorded, the WMO said.
The weather pattern, it said, “will not reverse the long-term warming trend caused by record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.”“Since the 1980s, each decade has been warmer than the previous one,” it said.It stood at 1.09C between 2011 and 2020, according to estimates by the UN’s climate science advisory panel, the IPCC.
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