Last year obliterated climate records and gave new meaning to the phrase 'off the charts,' the U.N.'s weather agency said on Tuesday.
In it's latest annual "State of the Global Climate" report, researchers at the World Meteorological Organization outlined how extreme weather events in 2023 wreaked havoc for millions of people across the globe and inflicted billions of dollars in economic losses.
The WMO said records were broken, and in some cases smashed, for indicators such as greenhouse gas levels, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, Antarctic Sea ice cover and glacier retreat. The 1.5 degrees Celsius level is widely recognized as an indicator of when climate impacts become increasingly harmful to people and the planet, as outlined in theSirens are blaring across all major indicators ... Some records aren't just chart-topping, they're chart-busting. And changes are speeding up.
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