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WMO Issues Red Alert on Climate Change
Climate Change. Photo: shutterstock/Sepp photography
SEAToday.com, Jakarta - The latest report from the UN weather agency, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), shows record-smashing rises in greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, Antarctic sea ice cover, and glacier retreat in 2023.
The report, released on Tuesday (3/19), confirms that 2023 was the warmest year on record. 2023 has a global average near-surface temperature of 1.45°C above pre-industrial levels, a miss by a close margin from the 1.5°C threshold of the global warming commitment made in the Paris Agreement. It is expected that the warming will continue, as the change is “irreversible on scales of hundreds to thousands of years.”
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