The most recent assessment on the state of the climate, which was released by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) on Friday, cites multiple indicators of a worsening climate catastrophe, one of which being the hottest day in Ireland in 137 years.
At the meteorological station in Dublin’s Phoenix Park, a temperature of 33 degrees was recorded in July of last year, making it the hottest temperature on record since 1887.
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) utilised this, in addition to other worrying rises in Europe and abroad, to emphasise the urgency of its most recent statement on increasing temperatures and sea levels.
“Record high yearly temperatures was registered in western Europe,” it said, “where in mnay countries had their warmest seasons on record, including the all UK of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, France, Spain, Ireland, Portugal,Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland.” “Record high yearly temperatures were seen in western Europe too,” it said. “where a number of countries had their warmest year on record.” It was discovered that worldwide sea levels have been climbing at a rate that is more than twice as fast as the rate they did in the first decade of monitoring, which occurred between 1993 and 2002, and that they reached a new record high in 2017.
According to a key assessment by the United Nations organisation that details the devastation caused by climate change, an increase in sea levels of 4.62 millimetres per year on average is expected between 2013 and 2022 as a result of extreme glacier melt and registered a huge ocean heat levels, both of which cause water to expand.
That is approximately double the rate of the first decade of measurements, which were taken from 1993 to 2002, and it has led to a cumulative increase of more than 10 centimetres since the beginning of the 1990s.
Some coastal towns and the very survival of low-lying countries, such as the island of Tuvalu, are in danger as a result of rising sea levels. In preparation for this possibility, Tuvalu is making preparations to create a digital replica of itself.
“This report exhibits that, once again, greenhouse gases concentrations in the atmosphere is rising to reach record levels,” the secretary general of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), Petteri Taalas, said in the foreword of the report. “This is contributing to increasing temprature on the ocean and land, melting of glaciers and ice sheets, rising sea levels, and warming and acidifying of oceans,” he added.
The annual study, which was made public a day before Earth Day, also demonstrated that sea ice in Antarctica reached record lows during the months of June and July of last year. According to the report, the world’s oceans have reached their hottest state on record, with around 58% of their surfaces being affected by a marine heatwave.
Despite the fact that a three-year La Nia climate phenomenon had a cooling influence, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) stated that 2022 rated as either the fifth or sixth warmest year on record with a mean worldwide temperature that was 1.15 degrees above the pre-industrial normal.
Scientists who study climate change have issued a dire warning that the global average temperature may set a new record in 2023 or 2024.
