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WMO Confirms 2019 as second hottest year on record

01/16/2020

WMO Confirms 2019 as second hottest year on record Geneva, 15 January 2020 – The year 2019 was the second warmest year on record after 2016, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s consolidated analysis of leading international datasets. Average temperatures for the five-year (2015-2019) and ten-year (2010-2019) periods were the highest on record. Since the 1980s each decade has been warmer than the previous one. This trend is expected to continue because of record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases…

Greenhouse Gas Levels in Atmosphere Break Another Record, UN Report Shows

11/23/2018

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| Press release, Sciences

Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to a report issued on Thursday by the United Nations weather agency, which reveals that there is no sign of a reversal of this trend, responsible for climate change, sea level rise, ocean acidification and extreme weather. “The science is clear. Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gases, climate change will have increasingly destructive and irreversible impacts on life on Earth. The window of…