The world’s oceans have grown to an unprecedented level of acidity last year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday, as UN officials warned that the Ukrainian war threatens global climate resilience.Oceans witnessed the most shocking exaggeration as WMO elaborated on the effects of climate change in its annual report “State of the Global Climate”. He said the melting of the ice helped push sea levels to higher ground by 2021. “Our climate is changing right before our eyes. The heat generated by man-made greenhouse gases will warm the planet for many generations to come,” said WMO Secretary-General. Petteri Taalas in a statement.
The report follows a recent N weather forecast. Taalas told reporters that there was no short-term windfall of climate challenges like other issues, such as the COVID-19 epidemic and the Ukrainian war, holding the headlines.Selwin Hart, special adviser to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on climate change, has criticized countries for withdrawing climate commitments due to the conflict, which has raised electricity prices and led European countries to seek to close Russia instead of a power company. “We see a lot of choices being made by many major economies, which will, without a doubt, be able to close the future of high-carbon, highly polluting and threaten our climate goals,” Hart told reporters. On Tuesday, global equity index MSCI warned that the world was facing a dangerous rise in greenhouse gases when Russian gas is replaced by coal.
The WMO report said carbon dioxide and methane levels of atmospheric warming by 2021 exceed previous records.Globally, the average temperature last year was 1.11 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level – as the earth is approaching the 1.5C threshold which is expected to have far-reaching effects.”It’s too late to see another hot year in history,” Taalassaid.The seas are hard to bear because of the heat and the air. Water bodies absorb about 90% of global warming and 23% of carbon dioxide emanating from human activities.
Sea levels warned
The sea has warmed up rapidly over the past 20 years, reaching its peak in 2021, and is expected to warm up even more, the report said. That change will take centuries or even millenniums to recede, it noted. The oceans are also now highly acidic for at least 26,000 years as they absorb and react with the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.The sea level has risen by 4.5 cm (1.8 inches) over the past decade, with annual growth from 2013 to 2021 more than doubling from 1993 to 2002.WMO also lists individual heat waves, wildfires, floods and other weather-related disasters around the world, citing reports of more than $ 100 billion in damage.
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