Past eight years were the warmest on record globally, fuelled by ever-rising greenhouse gas concentrations and accumulated heat – UN's World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization warned"that long-term warming continues," with the world"already approaching the lower limit of temperature increase the Paris Agreement seeks to avert."The United Nations has confirmed that the past eight years were the hottest since records began, even with the cooling influence of a drawn-out La Nina weather pattern.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA released similar 2022 global temperature figures on Thursday and Bill Nelson, head of the US space agency, described them as "alarming."Last year marked the eighth consecutive year that annual global temperatures were at least one degree over the pre-industrial levels seen between 1850 and 1900.
But the WMO warned Thursday that "the likelihood of – temporarily – breaching the 1.5C limit... is increasing with time."Record temperatures Europe endured its second-hottest year ever as France, Britain, Spain and Italy set new average temperature records and heatwaves across the continent were compounded by severe drought conditions, it said.
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