Topic Reading-Vol.4050-5/27/2023

Dear MEL Topic Readers,
‘Sounding the alarm’: World on track to breach a critical warming threshold in the next five years
In 2015 at the Paris Climate Agreement, the world’s leaders and scientists agreed to limit global warming to below 2.0, preferably 1.5, degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial temperatures in order to avoid catastrophic climate change. Beyond this temperature increase, extreme weather events, such as drought, wildfires, heatwaves, storms, and floods will occur more frequently and intensely, and substantially more polar ice sheets are going to melt and raise sea levels. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), there is a good chance that the global temperature will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius before 2027 due to increasing warming pollution and the upcoming El Niño, which tends to cause a heating effect globally. So now the world is about to experience the long-warned extreme effects of global warming. Will they trigger a global warning?
Read the article and learn about this critical alarm by WMO.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/17/world/global-warming-breach-wmo-climate-intl/index.html