WMO provisional report on the State of the Climate 2020
- December 26, 2020
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WMO provisional report on the State of the Climate 2020
Subject : Environment
Context : This year is also second hottest year on record after 2016, as per WMO’s provisional report on the State of the Climate 2020 published on December 2, which collected data from January till October 2020.
Concept :
State of the Global Climate Provisional Report
- This report was released by the World Meteorological Organization.
- The decade 2011-2020 would be the warmest ever on record.
- Also, the year 2020 is set to be among the three warmest on record.
- The record heat in 2020 has been despite La Niña conditions prevailing in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
- Scientific evidence indicates increasing temperatures are a direct result of human-led global warming, an impact of Green House Gas emission.
- After record GHG levels of 2019, there has been a slight dip this year due to measures taken by countries to fight the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
- Global sea-level rise was similar to 2019 values and the general decreasing trend has continued.
- Extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones, floods, heavy rainfall and droughts which are an expensive consequence of global warming impacted many parts of the world.
Additional Information
- The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations dedicated to meteorology (weather), climatology (climate), operational hydrology (water) and other related geophysical sciences such as oceanography and atmospheric chemistry.