World is already becoming dangerously overheated, warns WMO

The latest WMO Global State of the Climate report for 2024 shows that the last decade was the warmest on record.

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00:00The world is already becoming dangerously overheated, and the pace of climate change

00:05is accelerating, according to the World Meteorological Organization. They just released their latest

00:11global state-of-the-climate report for 2024, showing that the past decade was the warmest

00:16on record. And it's exactly what scientists had predicted, according to Director General

00:21Celeste Di Saulo.

00:22It's being more accentuated than expected, but it's not a surprise, and we have to

00:28acknowledge that scientists have been marking this for many years, more than 30 as well,

00:34and what is a surprise is the slow reaction.

00:38The UN's weather experts say that we are already at 1.3 degrees of warming compared

00:43to the pre-industrial average, and we are already seeing unprecedented sea surface temperatures

00:49melting at the ice caps, droughts, and of course floods like we saw in Spain.

01:14It's a grim outlook. Greenhouse gas emissions may be falling in Europe, but they're still

01:19rising around the globe, and it doesn't matter to the atmosphere whether the CO2 was emitted

01:24in Beijing, Baku, or Berlin. More heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere means more warming

01:30for everyone, and that's the bottom line. Jeremy Wilkes at COP29 in Baku in Azerbaijan

01:35for Euronews.