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Updated December 2nd, 2020 at 21:02 IST

'2020 on course to be one of the three hottest years ever recorded', WMO warns

2020 is on course to become one of the three warmest years ever recorded and could even beat the previous record of 2016, the UN warned on Dec 2.

Reported by: Riya Baibhawi
2020 on course to be one of the three hottest years ever recorded, WMO warns
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2020 is on course to become one of the three warmest years ever recorded and could even beat the previous record of 2016, the United Nations warned on December 2. In its latest report, the agency’s World Meteorological Organization stated that the past six years were set to make the hottest years since the modern record began in 1850. Elaborating further, WMO general secretary Petteri Taalas stressed that the average global temperature in 2020 is set to be about 1.2°C above the pre-industrial levels.

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State of the Global Climate Report

In its provisional 2020 State of the Global Climate Report, WMO stressed that 2020 had at least one in five chance it’s temperature temporarily exceeding 1.5°C by 2024. The WMO also stressed that 2020 seemed on course to be second-hottest year ever, however,  the difference between the top three was small and “the picture could change once this year's data sets are complete”. In addendum, the report also heightened hat that temperature averages across the last five years  were also “warmest on record.”

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Earlier this month, Red Cross said that Climate Change poses a much larger threat than coronavirus, calling out nations to act with urgency on the issue of global warming. In their latest report, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) highlighted that as the pandemic was raging, climate change was not taking a break either. Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a pandemic, the world has been hit by more than 100 disasters, having affected over 50 million people globally, the report revealed.

“Of course, the COVID is there, it's in front of us, it is affecting our families, our friends, our relatives.” IFRC Secretary-General Jagan Chapagain told a virtual press conference, but he warned that IFRC expects "climate change will have a more significant medium and long term impact on the human life and on Earth."

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Published December 2nd, 2020 at 21:02 IST

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