The ravages of costly extreme weather have picked up faster and with more intensity than earlier data indicated, a new report combining the efforts of the World Meteorological Organization and other climate change-monitoring bodies shows Tuesday.
Deadly heatwaves in Europe. Colossal floods in Pakistan. Prolonged and severe droughts in China, the Horn of Africa and the U.S. — and it’s all happening at once.
“There is nothing natural about the new scale of these disasters. They are the price of humanity’s fossil-fuel WBS00, -0.63% addiction,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said in response to the WMO’s “United in Science” report. Even existing global-warming temperature goals may not be enough to turn away the worst of climate change, the WMO-led report argues. Global leaders pledged in the voluntary 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, mostly by cutting the emissions that come with burning oil and gas, and by building out climate resilience so that the economic impact of rising seas and other developments could be limited. But the report issued Tuesday and the position of the U.
“Climate science is increasingly able to show that many of the extreme weather events that we are experiencing have become more likely and more intense due to human-induced climate change. We have seen this repeatedly this year, with tragic effect,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas. — WMO report A separate report issued last week offered a new assessment of tipping points within the climate system and indicates that far more stringent emissions cuts may be needed even when compared to the most ambitious current plans. The U.S. under the Biden administration , for instance, said it aims to halve greenhouse gas emissions by as soon as 2030, on the way to net-zero emissions by 2050.
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