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NEW DELHI: The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) on Monday warned that the record-breaking temperatures of 2024 will likely continue next year with the greenhouse gas (GHG) levels growing to record “observed highs, locking in even more heat for the future”. The warning factored in the UK Met office outlook for 2025, suggesting that it is likely to be one of the three warmest years for global average temperature, falling in line just behind 2024 and 2023. It has already been observed by the WMO that 2024 is set to be the warmest year on record, now almost certain to exceed the Paris Agreement threshold of 1.
5 degree celsius above pre-industrial (1850-1900) levels for the first time. This follows on from the record-breaking 1.45 degree C in 2023, the previous warmest year on record.
“Today I can officially report that we have just endured a decade of deadly heat. The top ten hottest years on record have happened in the last ten years, including 2024,” said UN secretary-general António Guterres in his New Year message on Monday. Referring to the WMO’s observation that 2015-2024 will be the warmest ten years on record, Guterres said, “This is climate breakdown — in real time.
We must exit this road to ruin — and we have no time to lose. In 2025, countries must put the world on a safer path by dramatically slashing emissions, and supporting the transition to a renewable future”. As global temperatures rise and extreme heat events become more frequent and severe, the WMO also stressed the growing need for enhanced international cooperation to address extreme heat risks.
Referring to a new report from World Weather Attribution and Climate Central, it noted that climate change intensified 26 of the 29 extreme weather events that killed at least 3,700 people and displaced millions in 2024. “Every fraction of a degree of warming matters, and increases climate extremes, impacts and risks. Temperatures are only part of the picture.
Climate change plays out before our eyes on an almost daily basis in the form of increased occurrence and impact of extreme weather events,” said WMO secretary-general Celeste Saulo. The global met body, however, time and again clarified that one or more individual years exceeding 1.5 degree C does not necessarily mean that “pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.
5 degree C above pre-industrial levels” as stated in the Paris Agreement is out of reach. “The exceedance of warming levels referred to in the Paris Agreement should be understood as an exceedance over an extended period, typically decades or longer, although the Agreement itself does not provide a specific definition,” the WMO said. Don't miss the yearly horoscope 2025 and Chinese horoscope 2025 for Rat , Ox , Tiger , Rabbit , Dragon , Snake , Horse , Goat , Monkey , Rooster , Dog , and Pig zodiac signs.
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