{"id":4571,"date":"2019-12-09T20:14:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T20:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euromenaenergy.com\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2019-12-09T20:14:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T20:14:26","slug":"climate-change-crisis-global-action-needed-before-its-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/?p=4571","title":{"rendered":"Climate change crisis: global action needed before it\u2019s too late"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scientists said that average temperatures from 2010-2019 look set to make it the warmest decade on record.
\nProvisional figures released by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) suggest this year is on course to be the second or third warmest year ever.
\nIf those numbers hold, 2015-2019 would end up being the warmest five-year period in the record.
\nThis \u201cexceptional\u201d global heat is driven by greenhouse gas emissions, the WMO says.
\nThe organisation\u2019s State of the Global Climate report for 2019 covers the year up to October, when the global mean temperature for the period was 1.1C above the \u201cbaseline\u201d level in 1850.
\nMany parts of the world experienced unusual levels of warmth this year.
\nSouth America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania were warmer than the recent average, while many parts of North America were colder than usual.
\nTwo major heat waves hit Europe in June and July this year, with a new national record of 46C set in France on June 28.
\nNew national records were also set in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and the UK.
\nIn Australia, the mean summer temperature was the highest on record by almost a degree.
\nWildfire activity in South America this year was the highest since 2010.
\nThe WMO clearly links the record temperatures seen over the past decade to ongoing emissions of greenhouse gases, from human activities such as driving cars, cutting down forests and burning coal for energy.
\n\u201cOn a day-to-day basis, the impacts of climate change play out through extreme and \u2018abnormal\u2019 weather.
\nAnd, once again in 2019, weather and climate-related risks hit hard,\u201d said the WMO\u2019s secretary-general Petteri Taalas.
\n\u201cHeatwaves and floods which used to be \u2018once in a century\u2019 events are becoming more regular occurrences. Countries ranging from the Bahamas to Japan to Mozambique suffered the effect of devastating tropical cyclones. Wildfires swept through the Arctic and Australia,\u201d Taalas continued.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s shocking how much climate change in 2019 has already led to lives lost, poor health, food insecurity and displaced populations,\u201d said Dr Joanna House, from the University of Bristol.
\nThe World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that climate change is mostly affecting human health, affirming that it causes the death of 7mn people annually in the world\u2019s various regions.
\nA large number of people suffer annually from pollution, heat stress, injuries and deaths resulting from extreme climate variability and insect-borne diseases such as Malaria, revealed Maria Neira, Director of WHO\u2019s Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, in a report about the impact of climate change on human health, during the UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid.
\nNeira urged governments to take serious measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as air pollution and climate change kill 7mn people annually.
\n\u201cHealth is paying the price of the climate crisis, because our lungs, our brains, our cardiovascular system is very much suffering from the causes of climate change which are overlapping very much with the causes of air pollution,\u201d said Neira, calling the lower than 1% of international financing for climate action that goes to the health sector \u201cnot enough and absolutely outrageous\u201d. The Director considered climate change as potentially the greatest health threat of the 21st Century, explaining that governments find difficulties in obtaining international climate finance to protect the health of their people and prevent the effects of this ongoing climate change.
\nThe Climate Change Conference in Madrid, we hope, will strengthen the global action against this climate emergency and fulfil Paris\u2019 climate agreement starting 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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