Climate Change Caused Extreme Weather, Heat in 2024: UN
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Climate change sparked a trail of extreme weather and record heat in 2024, the UN said on December 30, urging the world to pull back from the “road to ruin”.
The outgoing year is set to be the warmest ever recorded, the UN’s weather and climate agency said, capping a decade of unprecedented heat, AFP reported.
Meanwhile, emissions of greenhouse gases grew to new record highs, locking in more heat for the future, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said.
“Climate change plays out before our eyes on an almost daily basis in the form of increased occurrence and impact of extreme weather events,” WMO secretary-general Celeste Saulo said.
“This year we saw record-breaking rainfall and flooding events, and terrible loss of life in so many countries, causing heartbreak to communities on every continent,” she added.
“Tropical cyclones caused a terrible human and economic toll, most recently in the French overseas department of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean,” she noted.
The WMO is set to publish the consolidated global temperature figure for 2024 in January, with its full State of the Global Climate 2024 report to follow in March.
In his New Year message, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres reflected on the record temperatures witnessed over the past decade.
