UN Issues 'Red Alert' Regarding Global Warming After Record Heat in 2023

UN Issues 'Red Alert' , Regarding Global Warming , After Record Heat in 2023.

Al Jazeera reports that the United Nations' weather agency has sounded a "red alert" regarding global warming, citing a number of different factors.

Those factors include record-breaking levels of greenhouse gas emissions in 2023, as well as record-high temperatures on both land and sea.

Those factors include record-breaking levels of greenhouse gas emissions in 2023, as well as record-high temperatures on both land and sea.

The U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns there is a "high probability" that 2024 will continue to break high-temperature records.

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The same March 19 report warned that the world's efforts to reverse global warming have proven to be inadequate.

Never have we been so close – albeit on a temporary basis at the moment – to the 1.5C lower limit of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

, Celeste Saulo, World Meteorological Organization (WMO) secretary-general, via Al Jazeera.

The WMO community is sounding the red alert to the world, Celeste Saulo, World Meteorological Organization (WMO) secretary-general, via Al Jazeera.

According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, the world has already exceeded the 1.5 degree Celsius limit set by the Paris Agreement.

Earth’s issuing a distress call, Antonio Guterres, U.N.

Secretary-General, via Al Jazeera.

The latest State of the Global Climate report shows a planet on the brink.

Fossil fuel pollution is sending climate chaos off the charts, Antonio Guterres, U.N.

Secretary-General, via Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera reports that the news comes as experts and government representatives are set to meet in Copenhagen to push for greater global climate actions.

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Al Jazeera reports that the news comes as experts and government representatives are set to meet in Copenhagen to push for greater global climate actions.