Climate change continued its advance in 2022 as droughts, floods, and heatwaves affected communities on every continent and cost many billions of dollars, said the annual report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has removed the "nine-dash line" from a heatwave map posted on its Facebook page on Saturday.
Bigger downpours lead to bigger floods. The floods rush across the land, eroding the soil. And less water seeps down through the soil to recharge the underground water. Climate change also drives desertification by altering atmospheric circulation patterns and drying out land.
The findings reaffirm the data furnished by the UK Met Office, the University of East Anglia, and Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
The findings have been disclosed as the world’s governments gathered in Madrid for a critical UN conference on climate.
The year 2017 will likely be among the three warmest years on global record, according to the World Meteorological Organization…
