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WMO Warns of Global Temperature Rise, Urges Urgent Climate Action

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WMO Warns of Global Temperature Rise,

A new report from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) warns that global temperatures are likely to keep rising, with an 80 per cent likelihood that at least one year before 2029 will become the hottest on record.

Projections indicate that the planet will warm by between 1.2°C and 1.9°C above pre-industrial levels over the next five years.

In 2024, global temperatures were already between 1.34°C and 1.41°C above pre-industrial benchmarks, and the 20-year average warming (2015–2034) is expected to reach 1.44°C.

The report places the probability of temperatures exceeding 1.5°C in at least one of the next five years at 86 per cent, with a 1 per cent chance of breaching the 2°C mark.

There is also a 70 per cent chance that the five-year average temperature will exceed the 1.5°C threshold.

The WMO stressed that the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C target pertains to long-term averages calculated over two decades, and thus, this benchmark has not yet been officially surpassed.

Nevertheless, short-term temperature surges are seen as stark warnings of an intensifying climate crisis.

Regionally, the outlook points to wetter-than-usual conditions across the African Sahel, northern Europe, and South Asia, while the Amazon basin is expected to endure continued drought.

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The Arctic remains particularly vulnerable, with average temperatures over the next five winters projected to be 2.4°C above the 1991–2020 average more than three times the global average rate of warming.

Sea ice is forecast to continue diminishing, especially in the Barents, Bering, and Okhotsk Seas, further contributing to rising sea levels and disrupted global weather systems.

As the world enters a critical period, the UN agency is calling for immediate and decisive climate action to avert more dangerous levels of warming and to ensure that long-term temperature increases remain below the 1.5°C threshold.


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