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Immediate action is needed on climate change.
Climate crisis fills top five places of World Economic Forum’s risks report | Business | The Guardian
That the warnings from the world's leading scientists have been ignored for too long and the devastating effects of climate change are being felt all across the world.
Climate emergency: 2019 was second hottest year on record | Environment | The Guardian
A year of extreme weather events and mounting evidence of global heating have catapulted the climate emergency to the top of the list of issues worrying the world’s elite.
The World Economic Forum’s annual risks report found that, for the first time in its 15-year history, the environment filled the top five places in the list of concerns likely to have a major impact over the next decade.
Børge Brende, the president of the World Economic Forum, said: “The political landscape is polarised, sea levels are rising and climate fires are burning. This is the year when world leaders must work with all sectors of society to repair and reinvigorate our systems of cooperation, not just for short-term benefit but for tackling our deep-rooted risks.
Climate crisis fills top five places of World Economic Forum’s risks report | Business | The Guardian
That the warnings from the world's leading scientists have been ignored for too long and the devastating effects of climate change are being felt all across the world.
The year 2019 was the second hottest on record for the planet’s surface, according to latest research. The analyses reveal the scale of the climate crisis: both the past five years and the past decade are the hottest in 150 years.
The succession of records being broken year after year is “the drumbeat of the Anthropocene”, said one scientist, and is bringing increasingly severe storms, floods, droughts and wildfires.
The previous hottest year was in 2016, the year that a natural El Niño event boosted temperatures. The new data is for the average global surface air temperature. More than 90% of the heat trapped by human greenhouse gas emissions is absorbed by the oceans, but on Monday scientists revealed 2019 as the warmest yet recorded in the seas, calling it “dire news”.
Climate emergency: 2019 was second hottest year on record | Environment | The Guardian
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