Climate Crisis Intensifies: New Temperature Record Expected

2024 currently shows the highest recorded average temperature. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) forecast, there is an 80 percent chance that this record will be surpassed at least once between 2025 and 2029.

No Sign of Climate Crisis Easing

Global warming is likely to exceed the 1.5-degree mark in the five-year average by 2029, according to the forecast. It was created under the leadership of the UK Met Office from climate models of 15 institutions. The German Weather Service was also involved. At the Paris UN Climate Summit in 2015, it was decided to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial times as much as possible. This goal is considered hardly achievable anymore. The WMO assumes that this limit has already been breached in 2024. However, the goal is only officially considered missed if the value is exceeded over decades.

World Meteorological Organization Warns of Climate Crisis Consequences

But even every tenth of a degree of warming contributes to heatwaves, extreme rain, drought, ice melt, warmer oceans, and rising sea levels, the organization warned. "Unfortunately, this WMO report contains no sign of easing in the coming years," said WMO Deputy Chief Ko Barrett about climate change. "This means that our economies, our daily lives, our ecosystems, and our planet are increasingly negatively affected," she said.

Wetter Weather in Northern Europe and South Asia

According to the WMO, above-average seasonal rainfall is expected in several regions in the coming years, including Northern Europe and South Asia. In contrast, the Amazon is likely to become drier. The Arctic region around the North Pole is expected to warm more than three times faster than the rest of the world during the winter months, according to the forecast. To keep global warming permanently below 1.5 degrees, the emission of climate-damaging greenhouse gases would need to decrease quickly and significantly - by at least 43 percent by 2030. Additionally, large amounts of greenhouse gases would need to be removed from the atmosphere again.

(APA/Red)

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