Earth's temperature likely marks hottest decade on record: report

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Earth's temperature likely marks hottest decade on record: report

By Matthew Green

 

FILE PHOTO: An iceberg floats in a fjord near Tasiilaq, Greenland, June 16, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo

 

MADRID (Reuters) - The past decade is almost certain to be the hottest on record, weather experts warned on Tuesday, painting a bleak picture of vanishing sea ice, devastating heatwaves and encroaching seas in a report launched at a climate summit in Spain.

 

An annual assessment of the Earth’s climate by the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization (WMO) underscored the stakes at two weeks of talks aimed at shoring up the 2015 Paris Agreement to avert catastrophic global warming.

 

“Heatwaves and floods which used to be ‘once-in-a-century’ events are becoming more regular occurrences,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said in a statement.

 

“Countries ranging from the Bahamas to Japan to Mozambique suffered the effect of devastating  tropical cyclones. Wildfires swept through the Arctic and Australia,” he said.

 

Among the report’s findings:

 

** Average temperatures for the five-year (2015-2019) and 10-year (2010-2019) periods are almost certain to be the highest on record.

 

** 2019 is on course to be the second- or third-warmest year on record.

 

** Sea water is 26 percent more acidic than at the start of the industrial era, degrading marine ecosystems.

 

** Arctic sea-ice neared record lows in September and October, and Antarctica also saw record low ice several times this year.

 

** Climate change is a key driver of a recent rise in global hunger after a decade of steady declines, with more than 820 million people suffering from hunger in 2018.

 

** Weather disasters displaced millions of people this year and affected rainfall patterns from India to northern Russia and the central United States, and many other regions.

 

The report also noted that surges in sea temperatures known as “marine heatwaves” which devastate underwater life had become more common.

 

The report said the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere hit a record level of 407.8 parts per million in 2018 and continued to rise in 2019. Opening the climate summit on Monday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had warned that 400 parts per million had once been considered an “unthinkable” tipping point.

 

A drumbeat of dire reports from climate science in the past year has fueled environmental activism, prompted some companies to commit to slashing emissions and raised concerns among investors about the stability of asset prices.

 

Nevertheless, delegates in Madrid are facing an uphill battle to persuade major emitters to embrace the kind of radical change needed to shift the Earth’s climate system onto a more habitable trajectory.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-12-03

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[TopDeadSenter 4,934]

So it's back to "Global Warming" again. This shaggy dog story has more plot twists than the Jussie Smollet lynching.

[sirineou 12,094]

It's not so hot when you have your head buried in the sand.

[Catoholic 95]

Really?

 

Warm weather means bikini's, bbq's and beer!

 

How dare you!

[Aforek 1,066]

27 minutes ago, TopDeadSenter said:

So it's back to "Global Warming" again. This shaggy dog story has more plot twists than the Jussie Smollet lynching.

There are still people who don't believe in "global warming " ; ?

come back in one century;  you prefer to believe Trump ?  

[pgrahmm 6,563]

Tall claims considering consistent accurate record keeping world wide with reliable instruments might, possibly, maybe, have been employed for possibly as many as 150 years during the millions of years of the earth's existence... 

[wgdanson 8,661]

24 in Plok this morning. Wish it will be half that in London tomorrow.

[saengd 770]

Is that an express train bearing down on me?

 

No, don't worry, it's just a trick of the light, it's nothing really, just stay where you are and you'll be fine.

 

Thank goodness for th......   splat.

[canuckamuck 27,578]

every year should be close to the record, because it is warming. Ice age isn't over yet.

[RickBradford 5,821]

These catastrophe stories all proliferate just before the UN's annual gabfest, held annually in early December. A mere 25,000 delegates have decided to attend this 25th edition from all over the world, and if you want to calculate the carbon footprint of all those journeys, then go ahead, but be warned that you are not demonstrating sufficient solidarity.

 

On the schedule are massive amounts of posturing and virtue signalling, plenty of high-sounding political declarations, and almost certainly a tearful and woefully uninformed rant from Greta Thunberg.

 

The result, as with the previous 24 conferences, will be zero action.

[Kwasaki 7,610]

4 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

An annual assessment of the Earth’s climate by the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization (WMO) underscored the stakes at two weeks of talks aimed at shoring up the 2015 Paris Agreement to avert catastrophic global warming.

Just watched " Geostorm " on Netflix there's no problem. 

[mickey rat 149]

How long have they been keeping record?

[pgrahmm 6,563]

3 minutes ago, mickey rat said:

How long have they been keeping record?

Maybe around 150 years - more than likely less...Before that, no reliable instruments & no world wide coordination of information.....

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6 minutes ago, mickey rat said:

How long have they been keeping record?

 

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