PARIS Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will this year reach levels 50 per cent higher than before the industrial revolution because of manmade emissions, Britain's Met Office recently predicted.It forecasted the annual average CO2 concentration measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii in 2021 will be around 2.29 parts per million (ppm) higher than in 2020. It
On Top of Everything Else, 2020 Has Tied For The Hottest Year on Record
MARLOWE HOOD, AFP
11 JANUARY 2021
2020 has tied 2016 as the hottest year on record, the European Union s climate monitoring service said Friday, keeping Earth on a global warming fast track that could devastate large swathes of humanity.
The six years since 2015 are the six warmest ever registered, as are 20 of the last 21, evidence of a persistent and deepening trend, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported.
Last year s record high - a soaring 1.25 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels - was all the more alarming because it came without the help of a periodic natural weather event known as an El Nino, which added up to two-tenths of a degree to the 2016 average, according NASA and Britain s Met Office.
Atmospheric Carbon dioxide concentrations are rising annually, despite an uprecedented drop in emissions last year. CO2 levels will this year reach levels 50 per cent higher than before the industrial revolution because of manmade emissions.
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FILE PHOTO: A view of the A-68A iceberg from a Royal Air Force reconnaissance plane near South George island, November 18, 2020. Picture taken November 18, 2020. UK Ministry of Defence/Handout via REUTERS
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) – Last year tied with 2016 as the world’s warmest on record, rounding off the hottest decade globally as the impacts of climate change intensified, the European Union’s Copernicus Earth observation service said on Friday.
In the United States, the warmer temperatures contributed to a record 22 separate disasters that each caused more than a billion dollars of damage, including wildfires and hurricanes, according to a new U.S. government report.