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UN report: Human footprint ‘increasingly visible’ in climate
MARRAKECH,
Morocco
(AP) — Hot and wild and with
an “increasingly visible human
footprint” — that’s how the U.N.
weather agency sums up the global
climate in the past five years.
In a report released Tuesday
at international climate talks in
Morocco, the World Meteorolog-
ical Organization said 2011-2015
was the hottest five-year period on
record.
That comes as no surprise
as WMO’s annual reports have
showed record average tempera-
tures in 2014 and 2015.
But the agency said the five-year
report provides a better overview of
warming trends and extreme events
such as prolonged droughts and
recurrent heatwaves.
“We just had the hottest
five-year period on record, with
2015 claiming the title of hottest
individual year. Even that record
is likely to be beaten in 2016,” said
WMO Secretary-General Petteri
Taalas.
The WMO’s preliminary climate
AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File
In this file photo taken Sunday, a malnourished cow walks along
a dried-up river bed in the village of Chivi, Zimbabwe.
assessment for 2016 is set to be
released next week.
While it’s complicated to draw
links between single weather events
and climate change, the report
found that many extreme events
during the period were made more
likely as a result of man-made
climate change. In the case of some
extreme high temperatures, the
probability increased by a factor of
10 or more, the report said.
“Examples
include
the
record high seasonal and annual
temperatures in the United States
in 2012 and in Australia in 2013,
hot summers in eastern Asia and
western Europe in 2013, heatwaves
in spring and autumn 2014 in
Australia, record annual warmth
in Europe in 2014, and a heatwave
in Argentina in December 2013,”
WMO said.
The report found no strong
climate change link for extreme
rainfall events.
Other highlights:
• Arctic summer sea ice coverage
was 28 percent below the 1981-2010
average, reaching a record low in
2012. By contrast the Antarctic sea
ice was above average, especially
the winter maximum.
• Surface melting of the Green-
land ice sheet — a contributor
to rising seas — continued at
above-average levels, exceeding
the 1981-2010 average in all five
years from 2011 to 2015. Moun-
tain glaciers also continued their
decline.
• Snow cover in the northern
hemisphere was “well below
average” in all five years, continuing
a strong downward trend.
Climate scientists who were
not involved with the report
said it underscored the need for
governments to boost efforts to
fight climate change beyond their
pledges for last year’s landmark
Paris Agreement.
“The evidence is overwhelming,”
said Chris Field, director of the
Stanford Woods Institute for the
Environment. “The new report
from WMO is a clarion call for
embracing and going beyond the
goals of the Paris Agreement.”
The Paris deal calls for keeping
global temperature rises below 3.6
degrees Fahrenheit compared with
preindustrial times. The average
temperature in 2015, partly influ-
enced by a powerful El Nino event,
was already halfway there.
“Halting global warming at a
manageable level, as the world’s
nations decided in the Paris
Agreement, is now a race against
time,” said Stefan Rahmstorf of the
Potsdam Institute in Germany.
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October 19, 2016 - Boardman Chamber of Commerce’s collaboration with Riverside Jr/Sr High School resulted in a very successful
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