{"id":82318,"date":"2022-05-19T16:01:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T14:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/?p=82318"},"modified":"2022-05-19T16:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T14:01:35","slug":"four-key-climate-change-indicators-break-records-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/en\/environment\/four-key-climate-change-indicators-break-records-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Four key climate change indicators break records in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Four key climate change indicators \u2013 greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification \u2013 set new records in 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is yet another clear sign that human activities are causing planetary scale changes on land, in the ocean, and in the atmosphere, with harmful and long-lasting ramifications for sustainable development and ecosystems, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extreme weather \u2013 the day-to-day \u201cface\u201d of climate change \u2013 led to hundreds of billions of dollars in economic losses and wreaked a heavy toll on human lives and well-being and triggered shocks for food and water security and displacement that have accentuated in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WMO State of the Global Climate in 2021 report <\/a>confirmed that the past seven years have been the warmest seven years on record. 2021 was \u201conly\u201d one of the seven warmest because of a La Ni\u00f1a event at the start and end of the year. This had a temporary cooling effect but did not reverse the overall trend of rising temperatures. The average global temperature in 2021 was about 1.11 (\u00b1 0.13) \u00b0C above the pre-industrial level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Criticizing \u201cthe dismal litany of humanity\u2019s failure to tackle climate disruption,\u201d United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres used the publication of the WMO flagship report to call for urgent action to grab the \u201clow-hanging fruit\u201d of transforming energy systems away from the \u201cdead end\u201d of fossil fuels to renewable energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a video message, Mr Guterres<\/a> proposed five critical actions to jump-start the renewable energy transition<\/a>. They include greater access to renewable energy technology and supplies, a tripling of private and public investments in renewables <\/a>and an end to subsidies on fossil fuels which amount to roughly $11 million per minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRenewables are the only path to real energy security, stable power prices and sustainable employment opportunities. If we act together, the renewable energy transformation can be the peace project of the 21st century,\u201d said Mr Guterres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world must act in this decade to prevent ever worsening climate impacts and to keep temperature increase to below 1.5\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is just a matter of time before we see another warmest year on record<\/a>,\u201d said WMO Secretary-General Prof. Petteri Taalas. \u201cOur climate is changing before our eyes. The heat trapped by human-induced greenhouse gases will warm the planet for many generations to come. Sea level rise, ocean heat and acidification will continue for hundreds of years unless means to remove carbon from the atmosphere are invented. Some glaciers have reached the point of no return and this will have long-term repercussions in a world in which more than 2 billion people already experience water stress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cExtreme weather has the most immediate impact on our daily lives. Years of investment in disaster preparedness means that we are better at saving lives, though economic losses are soaring. But much more needs to be done, as we are seeing with the drought emergency unfolding in the Horn of Africa, the recent deadly flooding in South Africa and the extreme heat in India and Pakistan. Early Warning Systems are critically required for climate adaptation, and yet these are only available in less than half of WMO\u2019s Members. We are committed to making early warnings reach everyone in the next five years, as requested by the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres,\u201d said Prof. Taalas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WMO State of the Global Climate report<\/a> complements the IPCC Sixth Assessment report, which includes data up to 2019. The new WMO report is accompanied by a story map<\/a> and provides information and practical examples for policy-makers on how the climate change indicators outlined in the IPCC reports played out during the recent years globally and how the associated implications on extremes have been felt at national and  regional level in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WMO State of the Global Climate report, which will be used as an official document for the UN Climate Change negotiations known as COP27 to take place in Egypt later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dozens of experts contribute to the report from Member-States including National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) and Global Data and Analysis Centers, as well as Regional Climate Centres, the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW), the Global Cryosphere Watch and the EU\u2019s Copernicus Climate Change services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

United Nations partners include the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (UNESCO-IOC), International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the World Food Programme (WFP)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Global annual mean temperature difference from pre-industrial conditions (1850\u20131900) for six global temperature data sets (1850\u20132021). For details of the data sets and processing see Data sets and methods. Source: Met Office, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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World Meteorological Organization 2022<\/a>
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