Geneva: The swift announcement that a potentially record-breaking temperature measured this week in India could have been due to a sensor error highlights the challenges in certifying extreme heat. The recording of 52.9 degrees Celsius (127.2 Fahrenheit) in a Delhi suburb on Wednesday — surpassing the national record — was an outlier compared to other … Read more
All the major indicators of climate change smashed historic records last year, with some rising so steeply that the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization warned they were “off the charts.” The lives of millions of people were upended by natural disasters made worse by climate change, with countries everywhere struggling to cope with billions of … Read more
DUBAI: Worsening climate change made the 2011-2020 decade wetter and warmer for India, a new report by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) released at the UN climate conference here said on Tuesday. “Compared to the state of climate reports the WMO publishes every year, the new report provides a long-term perspective and sustained trends from … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size With a month to run, 2023 will reach global warming of about 1.4 degrees Celsius (2.5 Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, adding to “a deafening cacophony” of broken climate records, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday. The WMO’s provisional State of the Global Climate report confirms that 2023 will be … Read more
WMO issued the findings for Thursday’s start of the U.N.’s annual climate conference. FILE – Fire consumes an area next to the Transpantaneira road in the Pantanal wetlands near Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, Nov. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: The U.N. weather agency said Thursday that 2023 is all … Read more
NEW DELHI: Will the year 2023 breach the 1.5 degrees celsius temperature threshold in sync with the World Meteorological Organisation’s prediction in May that the annual average global temperature between 2023 and 2027 will be more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for at least one year?The answer to this may lie in the data, released … Read more