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Asia Warming at Twice the Global Average: WMO Report

Asia Warming at Twice the Global Average: WMO Report

Asia is warming faster than the rest of the world, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report, released Monday, shows the continent is heating up at twice the global average rate, leading to devastating impacts for ecosystems, societies and economies across the […]

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    Scientists Say 2016 Is Hottest Year Ever Recorded

    Scientists Say 2016 Is Hottest Year Ever Recorded

    Climate scientists are all but assured that 2016 was the hottest year ever recorded. If that sounds familiar, 2014 and 2015 were also the hottest years since record-keeping began in 1880. “2016 will break the global temperature record that was set in 2015, which broke the record that was set in 2014,” climate change scientist […]

    Last 5 Years Hottest on Record, Human Footprint ‘Increasingly Visible’

    Last 5 Years Hottest on Record, Human Footprint ‘Increasingly Visible’

    There is growing evidence that man-made climate change is contributing to individual extreme weather and climate events, according to the latest analysis by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Global five-year average temperature anomalies (relative to 1961–1990) for 2011– 2015. World Meteorological Organization The report, released at COP22 in Marrakech, finds that greenhouse gas emissions raise […]

    Arctic Melting Defies Scientists

    Arctic Melting Defies Scientists

    By Alex Kirby In an unusually stark warning, a leading international scientific body said the Arctic climate is changing so fast that researchers are struggling to keep up. The changes happening there, it said, are affecting the weather worldwide. As ice melts, the liquid water collects in depressions on the surface and deepens them, forming […]