According to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), global average temperatures in 2015 are likely to be the warmest on record. It is smashing regional records around the globe for the driest year, strongest tropical storms, warmest ocean temperatures and warmest five-year period.
This is all bad news for the planet”. Temperatures have breached a “symbolic threshold”, the WMO warned.
The world is warming because of heat-trapping gases that come from the burning of gas, coal and oil.
The World Meteorological Organisation published the figure on Wednesday that will provide a grim backdrop to the UN COP21 climate conference which gets underway in Paris next Monday.
Year-to-date, 2015 stands alone as the warmest on record by the sizable margin of 0.21 degrees (0.12 Celsius).
Meanwhile, the oceans – which absorb more than 90 percent of the energy leaked to the climate system from anthropogenic emissions – also reached record high global levels in their upper 2km during the first nine months of 2015.
“Eastern areas of north America were colder than average during the year, but none was recorded cold”.
Mr Jarraud overtly linked rising greenhouse gas emissions with the warming climate. These gases reached new highs in the northern hemisphere during spring 2015.
“Greenhouse gas emissions which are causing climate change can be controlled. We have the knowledge and the tools to act. We have a choice, Future generations will not,” he said.
By Ruchi Singh
reporter
Park Sae-jin
swatchsjp@ajunews.com
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