The United Nations meteorological agency warned on Tuesday that the climate crisis is the “defining challenge” of our time, urging immediate action to curb global warming.
Current state of global climate reportThe World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said 2023 “broke all climate indicators” and was “the warmest year on record.”
The report laments that in 2023, the world’s average temperature was 1.45 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average, making it “never this close” to the 1.5 degrees Celsius lower limit of the Paris climate agreement.
WMO Secretary-General Celeste Sauro said the report aims to “raise awareness of the critical need to scale up the urgency and ambition of climate action.”
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Interestingly, for the global average temperature time series, the WMO used a “reference period of 1850–1900.” This is the baseline used by the IPCC as a “reference period for pre-industrial conditions” and “because it is relevant for understanding global progress” in the context of the Paris Agreement. ”
This is interesting because, according to NASA, it is the only true tracking of global temperatures. Began Created in 1880 by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center, and the British Met Office’s Hadley Center.
Sporadic attempts have been made to measure temperatures, but “there is too little data before 1880 for scientists to estimate global average temperatures,” NASA claims.
Additionally, proxy records such as tree rings, pollen counts, and ice cores are fundamentally different from direct measurements, so “scientists typically do not include them in the same graphs as instrumental records,” NASA added.
This suggests that for the first 30 years (60 percent) of the WMO reference period, scientists do not have reliable data to estimate global average temperature.
Still, the report warns that the global average concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) has reached 417.9 parts per million (ppm), which is 150 per cent of pre-industrial (1750) levels. .
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However, as Greenpeace founder Dr. Patrick Moore has pointed out, historically, “it is clear that temperature and carbon dioxide are at least as inversely correlated as they appear to be.”
Moore says that at the end of the Jurassic period, “temperatures dropped dramatically while CO2 soared,” and that during the Eocene thermal maximum, “CO2 had been on a declining trend for 100 million years, but temperatures declined. “This is likely higher than at any time in the past 550 million years.” For years. ”
“This evidence alone is sufficient to justify deep speculation about the asserted causal relationship between carbon dioxide and temperature,” he said.
Furthermore, as noted astrophysicist Willie Thune observed, the temperature of Earth’s atmosphere has remained “relatively constant” over the last 15 years, despite “a dramatic increase in carbon dioxide concentrations.” Ta.
“This makes it difficult to argue that global temperature changes are primarily caused by changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations,” he argued.
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Moore also emphasized that because all life, including our own, is carbon-based, CO2 is “the currency of life and the most important building block for all life on Earth.”
“It’s a proven fact that plants, including trees and all food crops, can grow much faster at higher levels of CO2 than exists in the atmosphere today,” Moore said. “Even at today’s concentrations of 400 ppm, plants are relatively starved for nutrients.”
“CO2 is life-giving and we should celebrate it instead of blaming it, as is the trend today,” he said.
