In 2022, the world is likely to experience one of the warmest years on record, highlighting concerns about the need to address climate change.
Average global temperatures are anticipated to be about 1.09 ° C higher than pre-industrial levels, the Met Office, the UK’s meteorological service, said on Tuesday. While temperatures are expected to be slightly lower than those recorded in some years since 2015, it will be the eighth year in a row with temperatures 1 ° C above pre-industrial levels.
Climate scientists have said that global temperatures will only rise if greenhouse gas emissions are not drastically reduced, causing weather events such as heat waves to become more frequent and threatening to cause more deaths and harm food production. .
Global crop yields could decline by about 30% due to climate change, while demand for food is expected to increase 50% in the coming decades, according to the United Nations.
That series of increases in average temperature since 2015 “masks the huge variation in temperature around the worldDoug Smith, a climate prediction expert at the Met Office, said in a statement. “Some places like the Arctic have warmed several degrees since pre-industrial times. “
The recent climate talks organized by the UN in Glasgow tried to keep alive the hope of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 ° C above the pre-industrial period. The talks reached some deals on methane and carbon trading, but hopes for a clear manifesto to phase out coal were dashed with more moderate commitments.
The Met Office indicated that temperatures next year would be slightly limited due to the influence of the La Niña weather phenomenon in the Pacific. A colder winter in the region could increase appetite for liquefied natural gas in Asia, the world’s largest buyer of the fuel.
