weather agency earlier this year rolled out predictions that suggest Earth would within the next five years have a year that averages 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than in the mid 19th century.
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“It is worth noting that this is happening BEFORE we see the full warming impact of the El Nino event, which typically plays out in the second year after it develops.”Ī strong El Nino coincided with the all-time high temperatures in 2016. “Antarctic sea ice extent was literally off the charts, and the global sea surface temperature was once again at a new record,” WMO’s secretary-general, Petteri Taalas, said in a statement released to the media. It’s all hands on deck now to prevent 3.0 C global warming - a level of warming that will wreak havoc worldwide.” “We will not limit warming to 1.5 C we will not limit warming to 2.0 C. “It’s time for global leaders to start telling the truth,” said Weaver, a professor at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria in Canada. He expressed concern that the public will just forget the issue when temperatures fall again. Usually an El Nino, which started earlier this year, adds extra heat to global temperatures but more so in its second year.Ĭlimatologist Andrew Weaver said the numbers announced by WMO and Copernicus come as no surprise, bemoaning how governments have not appeared to take the issue of global warming seriously enough. Scientists blame ever warming human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas with an extra push from a natural El Nino, which is a temporary warming of parts of the Pacific Ocean that changes weather worldwide.
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