CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -WMO is releasing the Provisional State of the Global Climate in 2022 report and an accompanying interactive storymap today at 14:15 EET (local time), on the eve of the UN climate negotiations in Sharm-El-Sheikh, COP27.

Detailed explanation-2: -Extreme heatwaves, drought and devastating flooding have affected millions and cost billions this year, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s provisional State of the Global Climate in 2022 report.

Detailed explanation-3: -Continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend, global temperatures in 2022 were 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit (0.89 degrees Celsius) above the average for NASA’s baseline period (1951-1980), scientists from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York reported.

Detailed explanation-4: -On warmest track While the persistence of a cooling La Niña event, now in its third year, means that 2022 will not be the warmest year on record, its cooling impact will be short-lived and not reverse the long-term warming trend caused by record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.

Detailed explanation-5: -For 2022, temperatures were more than 2°C above the average of the 1991–2020 reference period over parts of northern central Siberia and along the Antarctic Peninsula. A number of regions saw the warmest year on record, according to the ERA5 dataset.