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Climate change: 2018 set to be fourth hottest year since records began
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- After months of devastating heatwaves and wildfires around the world, UN’s specialist weather agency says 2018 is set to be the fourth hottest year.
- According to World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) for the first 10 months of the year reveal the planet was nearly 1C above the preindustrial baseline.
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Concerns expressed by :
- 20 warmest years ever measured have been in the past 22 years.
- Over the past five years warming has averaged more than 1C higher than historical levels.
Linking of catastrophic events to the rising global temperatures:
- Every fraction of a degree of warming makes a difference to human health and access to food and fresh water, to the extinction of animals and plants, to the survival of coral reefs and marine life.
- The last four years were the four warmest years on record because, globally, humans have taken coal, oil and gas out of the ground, burnt them, and so emitted one and a half trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide to the Earth’s atmosphere.
- Examples like soaring temperatures and extreme weather provided a picture of result of the changing climate.
Source
The Indian Express