WMO 2022 Report
In its State of the Global Climate in 2022 report the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) reports that "the past eight years are on track to be the eight warmest on record, fuelled by ever-rising greenhouse gas concentrations and accumulated heat".
WMO 2022 Report
Other report highlights include
- Drought, floods and heatwaves affect large parts of the world and the costs are rising;
- Sea level and ocean heat are at record levels – and this trend will continue for many centuries;
- Antarctic sea ice falls to lowest extent on record;
- Europe shatters records for glacier melt.
This chart shows how closely the best known global records of temperature agree.
Watch a video summary here,
September 2022: A warning that multiple world-altering tipping points will be breached if we exceed 1.50C
Climate tipping points are conditions beyond which changes in a part of the climate system become self-perpetuating. These changes may lead to abrupt, irreversible, and dangerous impacts with serious implications for humanity.
This paper explains how exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points.