Humanity, which continues to disrupt the climate system, suffers more than ever in the wrath of global warming. In 2022, extreme heat waves, historic droughts, devastating floods, and raging fires relentlessly hit the planet, affecting millions of people and causing billions of dollars in economic losses. Proof that climate change offers no respite, the past eight years are the hottest on record. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announcesThursday, January 12, confirming its forecast for November 2022.
The average global temperature in 2022 was 1.15°C above pre-industrial levels (1850-1900). This is the eighth year in a row that the 1°C mark has been exceeded. Since the 1980s, each decade has been warmer than the previous one.
The year 2022 ranks fifth or sixth hottest on record. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has not been able to determine the exact classification because slight differences between the datasets it makes (NASA, the UK Met Office or the European Copernicus Climate Change Service) are within the margin of error in calculating global temperature.
The higher temperatures were mitigated somewhat by La Niña – a thermal anomaly in the surface waters of the equatorial Pacific that lowers the global temperature. This phenomenon has been going on for three consecutive years which is very rare. “But this cooling will not last long and will not reverse the long-term warming caused by record levels of greenhouse gases that trap heat in our atmosphere.”Remember the World Meteorological Organization.
Ocean warming
Under the influence of human activities, in particular the combustion of fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas), Emissions will continue to rise in 2022so that the concentrations of carbon dioxide2 Or methane have reached new records. These are the highest levels in more than 2 million years for the first greenhouse gas and more than 800,000 years for the second.
in Europe, The fastest warming continentwas established in 2022 with the name of second warmest year (after 2020), with a record summer, According to the Copernicus Annual Review Posted Tuesday, January 10th. It is about The hottest year ever recorded in France, in which the climate crisis has manifested itself very strongly, as well as in many countries in Western Europe – the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Italy, etc. Extremely high temperatures, coupled with severe drought, have caused many fires to start, leading to an increase in emissions from wildfires in these countries.
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