Forecast CO2 concentrations at the Mauna Loa observatory, showing monthly (red curve) and annual (red star) values. The green star and green line shows the updated 2020 forecast and its uncertainty, issued following the reduction in global CO2 emissions due to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Image courtesy of U.K. Met Office via Courthouse News)
PARIS (AFP) Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will this year reach levels 50% higher than before the industrial revolution because of manmade emissions, Britain’s Met Office predicted on Friday.
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.
2020 Ties With 2016 As Hottest Year On Record, Says Report 2020 Ties With 2016 As Hottest Year On Record, Says Report After an exceptionally warm autumn and winter in Europe, the continent experienced its hottest year on record in 2020, while the Arctic suffered extreme heat and atmospheric concentrations of planet-warming carbon dioxide continued to rise.
Scientists say the rising temperatures contributed to more intense natural disasters. (File)
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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 Earth observation service said on Friday.
After an exceptionally warm autumn and winter in Europe, the continent experienced its hottest year on record in 2020, while the Arctic suffered extreme heat and atmospheric concentrations of planet-warming carbon dioxide continued to rise.
2020 ties with 2016 as hottest year on record Afp, Paris Afp, Paris
The year 2020 tied with 2016 as the hottest year on record, the European Union s climate monitoring service said yesterday, 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 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.
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Met Éireann has issued a Status Yellow weather warning for all counties with freezing temperatures forecast tonight.
The national low temperature and ice warning will see the mercury drop to minus three or four degrees tonight.
This will lead to a widespread hard ground frost and icy surfaces, with potentially dangerous conditions, the forecaster warned.
Temperatures will be lower inland and away from coasts.
The advisory will take effect at 6pm tonight and last until 10am on Sunday morning.
Met Éireann says frost and ice on untreated surfaces will be slow to clear tomorrow.
The day will be dry in many areas with good sunshine, with scattered showers near coasts.
Good riddance to 2020, maybe but many of same issues will define 2021
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