The UN warns that 2024 could be a record-breaking year
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In 2023, global temperatures, greenhouse gas levels, ocean warming, sea level rise, and glacial retreat reached record levels, but 2024 could be even hotter, according to a UN report.
Last year, 2023, set an absolute temperature record for the last 10 years, but 2024 may be even hotter. This is stated in the report of the UN World Meteorological Organization, UNN reports.
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The World Meteorological Organization warns that climate change indicators reached record levels in 2023, but a new report shows that records for greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heating and acidification, sea level rise, Antarctic sea ice cover and glacial retreat have once again been broken.
A report by the WMO confirmed that 2023 was the warmest year on record, with the global average surface temperature 1.45 °C (with an error of ±0.12 °C) above the pre-industrial baseline. It was the warmest ten-year period on record.
All indicators are alarming... Some values don't just break records, they shatter them. And the changes are happening faster and faster
According to the head of the WMO, Celeste Saulo, the world has never been so close to the 1.5 degree Celsius warming threshold set by the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
Climate change is about much more than temperature. What we have seen in 2023, especially with unprecedented ocean warming, glacial retreat and loss of Antarctic sea ice, is particularly worrying
She added that the climate crisis is the defining challenge facing humanity and is closely intertwined with the crisis of inequality, as evidenced by growing food insecurity, population displacement and biodiversity loss.