COP26: Last seven years warmest on record, says UN climate report

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As the COP26 clime acme opens successful Glasgow, the UN's World Meteorological Organization says planetary mean temperatures person been 1°C warmer than pre-industrial levels for 2 decades

Environment 31 October 2021

By Adam Vaughan

TOPSHOT - A pistillate looks astatine wildfires tearing done a wood successful the portion of Chefchaouen successful bluish Morocco connected August 15, 2021. - Firefighters were battling overnight to enactment retired 2 wood blazes, a forestries authoritative said arsenic the North African kingdom swelters successful a heatwave that saw temperatures of up to 49 degrees Celsius (120 Fahrenheit) connected the weekend, according to upwind authorities. Morocco joins respective different Mediterranean countries that person seen wood fires successful caller weeks, including neighbouring Algeria wherever astatine slightest 90 radical were killed successful wildfires past week. (Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP) (Photo by FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)

The past 7 years were the warmest connected record, successful what UN scientists accidental is different wide motion that clime alteration is “getting worse and worse”. The provisional uncovering comes connected the aforesaid time arsenic the COP26 clime acme opens successful Glasgow, wherever astir 200 countries are gathering to debar aboriginal catastrophic warming.

The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said successful a study that 2021 is presently the sixth oregon seventh warmest twelvemonth connected record, based connected information to the …

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