The last eight years are the warmest ever recorded, confirms the UN

The last eight years were the warmest ever recordedconfirmed on Thursday the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)despite the persistence of the La Niña phenomenon, which temporarily moderated the effects of global warming.

The six main international data compiled by the WMO point to the same causes: “increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases and accumulated heat”indicates the organization of the UN in a statement, which confirms the conclusions of the European program on climate change Copernicus, published this week, and those of the United States Meteorological Office (NOAA) and NASA, also released this Thursday.

In 2022, the average global temperature was around 1.15ºC above pre-industrial levels, according to the WMO.

And last year was the eighth year in a row that annual global temperatures were at least one degree above levels seen between 1850 and 1900. Of the last eight years, the hottest was 2016, followed by 2019 and 2020.

The Paris Climate Agreement, concluded in 2015, called for limiting global warming to 1.5°C, which scientists say would slow the impacts of climate change.

But the WMO warned on Thursday that “the probability of temporarily crossing the 1.5°C limit increases with time.”

Thanks to the La Niña meteorological phenomenon, which tends to lower the temperature of the oceans and has persisted since 2020, the warming has slowed down a bit. ANDThe phenomenon could continue until Marchsaid the WMO, and then it would be followed by a neutral period, marked by the absence of La Niña and its opposite, El Niño.

The UN agency noted that, on the planet as a whole, the impact of La Niña would be “short-term” and “will not reverse the long-term warming trend caused by record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.” in our atmosphere. (YO)