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Met Office: 50-50 chance of exceeding 1.5C warming threshold in next five years

There is a 50-50 chance that temperatures will temporarily exceed the key 1.5C threshold for global warming in the next five years, a Met Office study has warned. The annual update forecasts that one of the years 2022-2026 is very likely to be the ...

10 May 2022 at 11:25

Report on warming hitting 1.5C within five years sparks calls for urgent action

Activists and politicians have called for urgent action on fossil fuels after a report found that scientists are likely to record a global average temperature of more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels over the next five years. The World ...

17 May 2023 at 16:29

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Meteorologists say this summer was hottest on record in Northern Hemisphere

Earth has sweltered through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured, with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Last month was not ...

06 Sept 2023 at 11:00

Hottest week on record ‘worrying news for planet’, say scientists

The world has had its hottest week on record according to preliminary figures, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has said. It is the latest in a string of records that has concerned scientists about how quickly the planet is ...

10 Jul 2023 at 17:55

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Temperature of 48.8C recorded in Sicily confirmed as Europe’s highest

The UN’s weather agency on Tuesday confirmed a reading of 48.8C in Sicily two years ago as the hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe. The World Meteorological Organisation said the Sicilian scorcher was picked up on August 11 ...

30 Jan 2024 at 10:34

Two million people dead from extreme weather since 1970, WMO says

Extreme weather, climate and water-related events have caused 11,778 reported disasters in the last half century, killing two million people and causing trillions of dollars of economic damage, the World Meteorological ...

22 May 2023 at 08:00

Climate change creating ‘intolerable future’ for human health

Climate change is severely damaging human health around the world and will continue to worsen as temperatures rise, according to health and climate researchers. So far, global warming has led to an increase in ...

14 Nov 2023 at 23:30

Climate change could unravel decades of progress in human health, says WMO

Climate change threatens to unravel decades of progress on improving human health through extreme heat, air pollution, disruption of food systems and the spread of disease, the World Meteorological ...

02 Nov 2023 at 11:00

Virtually certain 2023 will be warmest year on record, say climate scientists

It is virtually certain that 2023 will be the hottest year on record after four months of global temperature records being “obliterated”, climate scientists have said. October was the hottest ever ...

08 Nov 2023 at 15:33

September hottest on record by ‘extraordinary amount’, says WMO

September has smashed the monthly temperature record by “an extraordinary amount”, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has confirmed. It follows the hottest August and July that saw ...

05 Oct 2023 at 15:00

What is El Nino and what impact might it have?

US meteorologists have announced the return of the weather cycle El Nino, which could lead to record global temperatures. After three years of the cooler La Nina pattern, which often ...

09 Jun 2023 at 17:32

Europe is a ‘live picture of a warming world’ as fastest heating continent

Temperatures have risen by more than twice the global average in Europe over the past 30 years, UN experts on weather and climate have said. A report from the World Meteorological ...

02 Nov 2022 at 15:00

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