UN chief Climate heading into ‘uncharted territories of destruction’
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The past seven years were the warmest on record, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization United Nation's UN agency on climate change. Without aggressive climate action, global warming is estimated to reach 2.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
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The UN Secretary General said the impacts of climate change are heading into unchartered
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territories of destruction after a multi-agency scientific report reviewing the latest climate
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change research. The World Meteorological Organization United in Science report on
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climate change warns that the planet is going in the wrong direction. The report states greenhouse
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gas concentrations are rising in the atmosphere and world leaders are not adopting strategies to
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hold global warming below the 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial temperatures threshold.
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Now the earth is inching closer to dangerous climate tipping point. Already extreme weather
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events are frequent and more intense said the report. Emissions went down during the COVID-19
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lockdowns but the planet warming emissions soared beyond pre-pandemic levels. Comparing global carbon
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dioxide emissions in the first half of 2022 to the first half of 2019 levels. The 2022 level is 1.9%
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higher. Now the report said the past seven years were the warmest on record. The report said without
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aggressive climate action global warming is estimated to reach 2.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the
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century. Go to the westernstandard.news for the full story. I'm Chris Olkorn reporting for the Western
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