United Nations: Climate change causes extreme weather events
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
The World Meteorological Organization has announced that climate change will bring extreme weather and record temperatures in 2024, calling on the world to abandon the “path to catastrophe”.
2024 is expected to be the hottest year on record, according to the United Nations. This year was also marked by a record level of greenhouse gas emissions.
“Climate change is happening before our eyes almost daily, with increasing frequency and impact of extreme weather events,” said the organization’s secretary general, Celeste Saulo.
She continued: “This year we have witnessed record rainfall and floods and enormous loss of life in several countries, which has brought sadness to the souls of many societies across continents. »
The World Meteorological Organization reported that “tropical cyclones have left a heavy human and economic toll, the latest of which occurred in the French department of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean.”
She spoke of “the extreme temperatures which have affected dozens of countries, repeatedly exceeding 50 degrees Celsius, and the damage caused by forest fires”.
The long-term goal of the Paris Climate Agreement reached in 2015 is to contain global warming and limit the average global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius, or 1.5 degrees if possible. , compared to the rate that prevailed before the industrial revolution. .
The World Meteorological Organization announced last November that the average surface air temperature between January and September was 1.54 degrees Celsius higher than the average between 1850 and 1900.
