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The Heat Is On – WMO Sounds Global Red Alert

A new World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report shows record-smashing spikes in greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, and ocean heat.

The report also showed ocean acidification, sea level rise, Antarctic sea ice cover and glacier retreat.

At the same time, the WMO noted that heatwaves, floods, droughts, wildfires, and rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones have not only caused millions to suffer misery and mayhem but also inflicted billions of dollars in economic losses.

The WMO State of the Global Climate 2023 report, a testament to the scientific consensus, confirmed that 2023 was the warmest year on record.

The WMO noted that on an average day in 2023, nearly one-third of the global ocean was gripped by a marine heatwave, harming vital ecosystems and food systems.

“The WMO community is sounding the Red Alert to the world,” declared a deeply concerned Secretary-General, Celeste Saulo, emphasizing the severity of the problem.

Saulo declared that the climate crisis was humanity’s defining challenge, associated with growing food insecurity, population displacement, and biodiversity loss.

According to the WMO, global average near-surface temperatures were at 1.45 °Celsius, with a margin of uncertainty of ± 0.12 °C, above the pre-industrial baseline.

However, on an optimistic note, the WMO report disclosed that 2023 renewable capacity additions soared by almost 50 percent.

It was the highest observed rate in two decades.

In addition, from 2021 to 2022, global climate-related finance flows nearly doubled compared to 2019-2020, reaching almost $1.3 trillion.

However, this amounts to only about one percent of global GDP, underscoring a significant financing gap.

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8 COMMENTS

  1. COVID-19 Came and the whole world reacted. Climate change is happening right before our eyes and the world does not want to come together to respond. Just wait when people start dying.

  2. @John. They are already dying – floods, bushfires and other “natural” disasters caused by climate change have already killed thousands of people around the world. And remember there were many Covid deniers too. Humans. Sigh…

  3. Its so hot that when you plant , the crops are dying .. Cucumbers and salad beans just can’t Stand over 85 degrees Fahrenheit . It to hot for certain crops

  4. This is only one of the SIGNS, the worse is yet to come. Warning to the young men & women, stop spending your time just having a good time, smoking & drinking, listening of music not good for the children & your own Soul, for you neither know the time or the hour of your visitation. let us not move away from these signs & things that we were told to happen & seem to have begun. Shall we turn to our Bible at 2nd. Peter ch. 3 vs 10 – 14; “…….the Heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be bunt up.” ……I will stop here but there’s much more in the prophesies and today’s science to justify the conversation of today. Much as I would like to say to get used to it, I would prefer to say to you, it is indeed part of the signs of the times of the end. Seek Jesus now, the author & finisher of our faith.

  5. And we have heard the word of the prophètes made more Certain,and and you well do well to pay attention to it,as to a light shinning in a dark place, until the day dawns

  6. Satan is trying to interupt my comment but he that is more stronger is in me…
    And the morning star rises in our hearts.
    Above all,we must understand that no prophesies of Scriptures come about by the Prophètes own interprétation never had its own origin in the will of man, but Chosen men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Sprit,
    There are more than fourty millions of gods and many books cleverly invented stories and cannot save

  7. The true doctrines of the living GOD and his divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our Knowledges of him who called us by his own glory and goodness-
    Through thèse he has given us his very precious (Promises)
    So that through them we may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the World caused by 😈 evil desires,to keep us from beign ineffective and unreproductive in our Knowledge…
    Bear in mind, that,if God did not spare his angels which had sinned against him, but put them in dungeons to be held for ⚖️ jugement…
    If he did not spare the ancient world as all of us has been known about…
    When he brought the flood on its (Ungodly People) but protected Noah a preacher of Rigtheousness and his seven sons…
    If he did not spare but condemned the cities of Sodomie and Gomorrah by burning 🔥them to ashes and made them an example of what is going to the (UNGODLY)‼️

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