WMO Global Climate Report: Climate Breakdown Is Getting Even Worse, And It's Accelerating

[hatrack]

More devastating fires in California. Persistent drought in the Southwest. Record flooding in Europe and Africa. A heat wave, of all things, in Greenland. Climate change and its effects are accelerating, with climate related disasters piling up, season after season.

“Things are getting worse,” said Petteri Taalas, Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization, which on Tuesday issued its annual state of the global climate report, concluding a decade of what it called exceptional global heat. “It’s more urgent than ever to proceed with mitigation.”

But reducing greenhouse gas emissions to fight climate change will require drastic measures, Dr. Taalas said. “The only solution is to get rid of fossil fuels in power production, industry and transportation,” he said.

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Burnt farms in Piseux, northwest France, in July during a heat wave.Credit...Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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The 2015 Paris agreement called for countries to pursue efforts to limit warming this century to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, with an even stricter target of 1.5 degrees Celsius. But the United States under President Trump is leaving the agreement, and a United Nations report last month suggested that even if countries meet their pledges to cut emissions, and many are far off track, warming would be more than twice the 1.5-degree target.


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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/climate/climate-change-acceleration.html

[democratisphere]

1. The drumpflicon half of our nation remain the biggest deniers

of global warming and climate change. The russian rethuglicon hierarchy is great a brainwashing their followers.

[The_jackalope]

2. "...get rid of fossil fuels in power production, industry and transportation"

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Uh huh.