According to the World Meteorological Organization, it will likely be warmer than ever in the coming years. The United Nations has stated that climate change is not the only reason for this.
The years 2023 to 2027 are likely to be the hottest on record, according to the United Nations. “There is a 98% chance that at least one of the next five years and the entire five-year period will be the warmest on record,” said the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
So global temperatures could soon exceed the 1.5°C target of the Paris Climate Agreement. The eight warmest years on record were between 2015 and 2022, but the WMO predicts that temperatures will continue to rise.
The El Niño weather phenomenon exacerbates the situation
In addition to climate change, the organization also blamed the El Niño weather phenomenon, which it expects to return in the coming months. El Niño occurs every two to seven years and can increase global temperatures. The weather phenomenon is characterized by an increase in the surface water temperature in the Pacific Ocean. It causes mostly severe droughts in Australia, Indonesia, and parts of southern Asia, while it causes heavy rains in some areas of Africa, South America, the southern United States, and Central Asia. El Niño last occurred in 2018 and 2019.
In order to avoid climate change with catastrophic consequences, the international community agreed at the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015 to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees, but if possible to 1.5 degrees compared to the pre-industrial era.
The Earth’s temperature has already increased by more than 1.1 degrees as a result of humanity’s emissions of greenhouse gases, particularly through the use of fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), there is a 66 percent chance that global warming will exceed the 1.5 degree limit agreed upon in the Paris Climate Agreement in at least one year from 2023 to 2027. For each of these years, WMO has projected The range is between 1.1°C and 1.8°C.
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WMO President Petteri Taalas explained that this does not mean that the world will permanently exceed the Paris benchmark. However, his organization is “sounding the alarm that we will temporarily and repeatedly exceed the 1.5 degree limit.” The Finn said climate change caused by El Niño “is likely to drive global temperatures to unprecedented levels”. That would have “far-reaching implications for health, food security, water management and the environment,” Taalas said. “We have to be ready for that.”
