Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to the World Meteorological Organisation, the Climate Crisis is upon us. My question – did anyone notice the crisis?
Climate change indicators and impacts worsened in 2020
Tags: ClimateClimate change19
Published
19 April 2021
Press Release Number: 190420212020 was one of three warmest years on record, despite cooling La Niña
Extreme weather and COVID-19 combined in a double blow
New York/Geneva, 19 April 2021 (WMO) – Extreme weather combined with COVID-19 in a double blow for millions of people in 2020. However, the pandemic-related economic slowdown failed to put a brake on climate change drivers and accelerating impacts, according to a new report compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and an extensive network of partners.
The report on the State of the Global Climate 2020 documents indicators of the climate system, including greenhouse gas concentrations, increasing land and ocean temperatures, sea level rise, melting ice and glacier retreat and extreme weather. It also highlights impacts on socio-economic development, migration and displacement, food security and land and marine ecosystems.
2020 was one of the three warmest years on record, despite a cooling La Niña event. The global average temperature was about 1.2° Celsius above the pre-industrial (1850-1900) level. The six years since 2015 have been the warmest on record. 2011-2020 was the warmest decade on record.
“It has been 28 years since the World Meteorological Organization issued the first state of the climate report in 1993, due to the concerns raised at that time about projected climate change. While understanding of the climate system and computing power have increased since then, the basic message remains the same and we now have 28 more years of data that show significant temperature increases over land and sea as well as other changes like sea level rise, melting of sea ice and glaciers and changes in precipitation patterns. This underscores the robustness of climate science based on the physical laws governing the behaviour of the climate system,” said WMO Secretary-General Prof. Petteri Taalas.
“All key climate indicators and associated impact information provided in this report highlight relentless, continuing climate change, an increasing occurrence and intensification of extreme events, and severe losses and damage, affecting people, societies and economies. The negative trend in climate will continue for the coming decades independent of our success in mitigation. It is therefore important to invest in adaptation. One of the most powerful ways to adapt is to invest in early warning services and weather observing networks. Several less developed countries have major gaps in their observing systems and are lacking state of the art weather, climate and water services.” said Prof. Taalas.
Prof. Taalas joined United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in launching WMO’s flagship report at a press conference on 19 April. It comes ahead of the 22-23 April virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, convened by the United States of America. President Biden is seeking to galvanize efforts by the major economies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet the targets of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change to keep temperature increase to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century, and to 1.5°C if possible.
“This report shows that we have no time to waste. The climate is changing, and the impacts are already too costly for people and the planet. This is the year for action. Countries need to commit to net zero emissions by 2050. They need to submit, well ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, ambitious national climate plans that will collectively cut global emissions by 45 per cent compared to 2010 levels by 2030. And they need to act now to protect people against the disastrous effects of climate change,” said the UN Secretary-General.
In 2020, COVID-19 added a new and unwelcome dimension to weather, climate and water-related hazards, with wide-ranging combined impacts on human health and well-being. Mobility restrictions, economic downturns and disruptions to the agricultural sector exacerbated the effects of extreme weather and climate events along the entire food supply chain, elevating levels of food insecurity and slowing the delivery of humanitarian assistance. The pandemic also disrupted weather observations and complicated disaster risk reduction efforts.
The report illustrates how climate change poses a risk to the achievement of many of the Sustainable Development Goals, through a cascading chain of interrelated events. These can contribute to reinforcing or worsening existing inequalities. In addition, there is the potential for feedback loops which threaten to perpetuate the vicious cycle of climate change.
Information used in this report is sourced from a large number of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services and associated institutions, as well as Regional Climate Centres. UN partners include the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO), International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization.
It updates a provisional version released in December 2020 and is accompanied by a story map on global climate indicators.
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Read more: https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/climate-change-indicators-and-impacts-worsened-2020
This is it? Did anyone experience climate change so severe you now want to volunteer to pay more tax to fix it? Or is the World Meteorological Organisation claim that we are already experiencing an unaffordable expensive climate crisis overblown nonsense?
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These people at the WMO know they are lying. Typical leftist climate BS!
Note that they link Climate and Covid – showing their hand.
Read about it here:
“CLIMATE CHANGE, COVID-19, AND THE GREAT RESET”
https://electroverse.net/climate-change-covid-19-and-the-great-reset/
by Allan MacRae, March 21, 2021
Thanks for that link, Allan. Finally someone has impressively tied climate change alarmism, covid -19 and the ‘Great Reset’ together!
Let’s all get this word out to as many individuals and media as possible: There is no significant global warming – the “Climate Change” meme is all about the acquisition of world political power.
From the above article: “The report on the State of the Global Climate 2020 documents indicators of the climate system, including greenhouse gas concentrations, increasing land and ocean temperatures, sea level rise, melting ice and glacier retreat and extreme weather.”
Yeah, right. Let’s check out those mentioned “indicators”:
greenhouse gas concentrations — there has been NO scientific “proof” (preponderance of data-driven evidence) that GHG concentrations are responsible for changes in average global land and sea-surface temperatures . . . correlation does not equal causation . . . and Earth’s biosphere has survived, even prospered, at atmospheric CO2 concentration levels more than 5 times (i.e., more than 2000 ppm) our present level as “recently” as 160 million years ago (at the end of the Jurassic period).
increasing land and ocean temperatures — are the natural result of Earth exiting a glacial (aka “stadial”) period of low temperatures during the current Quarternary Ice Age, which began 2.6 million years ago and is still the present overall climate condition on Earth . . . Earth relatively recently (about 12,000 years ago) exited the last glacial interval . . . over the last million years, the Earth has naturally cycled between cooler periods (aka “stadials) and warmer periods (aka “interstadials) ten times at an almost-regular rate of 100,000 years per cycle, and mankind had nothing to do with this cycling . . . Earth’s temperature range and temperature rate-of-change over the last 200 years are both normal vis-a-vis Earth’s climate history over the last 100,000 years.
sea-level rise — on a global basis and when properly corrected for land uplift or subsidence when measured by land-based tide gauges and when corrected for atmospheric-driven effects (e.g. atmospheric pressure and wind) shows an essentially constant rate of increase of increase (about 3 mm per year) . . . details at https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/socd/lsa/SeaLevelRise/LSA_SLR_timeseries.php as is expected for Earth “recently” exiting a glacial interval and this shows no acceleration in rate, contrary to what would be expected if the rate of increase in atmospheric CO2 over the last 200 years (about a 46% increase) actually was a direct driver of global warming.
melting ice and glacier retreat — are the natural results of a naturally warming world (see second bolded item above) . . . and as noted under sea-level rise there is no indication that these have accelerated in the last 200 years due to mankind’s emissions of GHGs.
extreme weather events — by almost every objective, data-driven measure for “extreme weather” events and trend lines, extreme weather has NOT been uniformly increasing over the last 50 or so years where mankind has contributed its greatest proportion of cumulative CO2 emissions into Earth’s atmosphere . . . see https://wattsupwiththat.com/extreme-weather-page/ . . . the “increasing trend of extreme weather events” is a totally false meme originated by AGW alarmists and propagated by the MSM, despite objective facts to the contrary.
Ooops . . . my typo under sea-level rise paragraph: first sentence should read as “. . . shows an essentially constant rate of increase (about 3 mm per year) . . .”
Specifically, I did not mean it to be a rate of increase in a rate of increase (i.e., an acceleration).
Actually, the real rate is somewhere less than 2mm/year
H.L. Mencken was never more correct: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
It’s not about climate. It’s about control.
And sadly, people want to be controlled. It’s fiction, but Loki was right in Avengers:
Is this not your natural state? It’s the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life’s joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.
I used to think otherwise, but recent events appear to have proven him right.
Sometimes I think that this is just a mixture of fairytales: The Emperor’s New Clothes and The Pied Piper of Hamlin….
Nothing has happened to the climate in England during my 70+ years. It rains, it floods, we have droughts, we have heatwaves, we have snow, we have frost, we have ice, we have gale, we have storms and we have calm periods. It has been happening all my life.
I’m sorry, but that is absolutely wrong:
for example, 7 of the last 10 summers (2011-2020) have reached a temperature of 34°C. Before this, just 7 of the previous 50 summers (1961-2010) reached 34°C. All the top 10 warmest years for the UK in the series from 1884 have occurred since 2002.
6 of the 10 wettest years on record have been since 1998. The most recent decade (2010–2019) has been on average 1% wetter than 1981–2010 and 5% wetter than 1961–1990 for the UK overall.
For the most recent decade (2010–2019) UK summers have been on average 11% wetter than 1981–2010 and 13% wetter than 1961–1990. UK winters have been 4% wetter than 1981–2010 and 12% wetter than 1961–1990.
Every year except 2 since 2000 has seen multiple severe flooding events, regularly exceeding 1 in 100 year
The UK now sees more and longer intense rain events, more summer flash flooding, more heat waves.
Isn’t the increase of that rain all north of the border, though? (Clue: Yes)
Griff is lying once more about summers in the UK. The famous summer of 1976 was hotter than those of the 2000’s.
In griff world, evidence free assertions are enough. At WUWT, not so much.
1976 is more than 20 years ago. That’s prehistory.
Griff is always either LYING or presenting MISINFORMATION
The slight recent warming has come from an increase in sunshine hours (on top of continued urbanisation affecting weather stations)
You would think the Brits would be cheering about a bit of extra sunshine !
Doubt griff would ever notice it in his padded basement cell.
You can repeat lies all day long, they are still lies and you are a liar.
And of course EVERYONE KNOWS that the increase in flooding is because of the greenie agenda of not allowing proper channel maintenance.
Love it when whatever the griff-fool posts is a reflection of his far-left cult agenda.
NEVER anything cuased by human released CO2.
But when we look at the US, we learn that the hottest years occured around the 1930s, with some days reaching 130 F. More days having temperatures over 120 F occured during that period as well.
Staying with the US again, the area of land burnt by fire was higher at the end of the 19th century, and early 20th century by almost an order of magnitude. Mostly the media doesn’t like to talk about that.
You got 70 years? What the hel! did you do? I only got 24, and with time off for good behavior, I was able to escape to California.
The thing that really, really gets up my nose with these climate change guys is that they love to say things that are technically true, but designed to deceive. Like, sea level rise. Okay, sea levels are rising. Make a stack of four Canadian dimes. The height of the stack is how much the seas rose in 2018. Oddly that fact is never cited by someone who is bent on scaring you with stories of the coming deluge.
God to Noah: I’m going to flood the Earth, and it’s going to take 400 years. Get to work on that Ark. Noah to God: I think I’ll leave starting the Ark until the weekend.
The models are burning up!
The sky is falling! When will people listen?
maybe Chicken Little will listen…
Dear WMO,
Please provide DATA that the ACCELERATION of SLR, the frequency of floods, forest fires, hurricanes has changed in the last 100 years.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The only reason anyone is aware of a so-called ‘climate emergency’ is these people keep banging on about one.
By any sane, evidence-based rational assessment there’s literally NOTHING unusual occurring across global weather or climate patterns.
WMO is a UN organization which are committed to the cause in the same way as is the case with IPCC, UNEP, WEF and the World Bank, all in the name of the globalist elite.
Yeah, but what is “The Cause” that everybody involved secretly talks about? And why do they question whether you support it or not? As far as I can tell, “The Cause” always involves, first and foremost, the transfer of money.
That should tell you something.
The desperation is palpable. But not because of crisis climate. It is for the opposite. The climate wroughters know time is running short to get ahead of the parade to take credit for a much feared cooling that seems to be heading us back to levels of the earlier ~19 year ‘Pause’. If temps drop to that level (not far off), it means there has been no warming for a quarter of a century and it’s curtains and worse for the meme and its wroughters. Worse, a further drop of a couple of tenths and even the much fiddled real temperature highs of the past 7 or 8 centuries (mid 1930s-40s) will be connected up.
This is why we’re hearing so much about geoengineering. They know there is zero hope of stopping the Developing World’s hunger for fossil fuels to lift themselves out of poverty. CO2’S emmissions are going to accelerate no matter what comparatively puny cuts remain to be made by the West. And to add insult to injury, the planet is greening, crops are burgeoning, the Bengal tiger, polar bears, and all the rest are flourishing. Lets fill the atmosphere with sulphuric acid, or build reflectors so we can say we saved the planet.
I predict there is going to be accelerated retirement of clisci’s of a certain age and desertions to the other side. Thet did this during the “Ice Age Cometh” period 1950s to 1979.
Another in an unending series of “IT’S WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT!”
… More profitable than we imagined.
A professor from UCL told me that 9.8 million “climate change refugees” were to be mentioned in this report. The actual reference is as follows: “Some 9.8 million displacements, largely due to hydrometeorological hazards and disasters, were recorded during the first half of 2020″. In other words, anticipating cyclones and floods, millions took evasive action. Very wise. But cyclones and floods did not start with the “climate change” we are supposed to be worried about – worried enough to throw over the whole basis of our current prosperity – prosperity that has reduced deaths from extreme weather events by 90+% over the last 50-60 years.
So much for academic integrity…He did, though, modify his text!
Red Fulfilling his Official Role as UN Climate Ambassador. Did Red write the release?
Economists claim meteorologists were created to make them look good and this release could be considered evidence supporting that claim.
To answer the questions at the end of the article: Yes, I believe that is it. No to higher taxes and it is overblown non-sense.
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I believe we can add WMO with IPCC, NASA and NOAA to the list of UN associated agencies that have zero credibility. End the UN’s funding now.
WMO sez: “The weather is now climate!”
“Because we said so”.
“Go to your room!”
“through a cascading chain of interrelated events”
We at the UN accept cash, check, CC, or bitcoin but we prefer regular transfers of your national wealth with no auditing of our operations or contractor deals.
Too late!! Screw it then. Eat, Drink and be Merry
Here is some very current climate change. Temps in Antarctica have just dropped to minus 95 C over the last several days. These are the coldest temps since before 2017 from the daily pics I keep. This is around 12C lower than any day in the last 4+ years. … https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=168.56,-92.34,672/loc=41.198,-77.841
I meant to say 95F and not 95C.
Why is it that whenever they say we need to do “this or that” to save humanity, it is always at the expense of humanity?
That is the plan, make humans suffer, steal from humans, kill humans. Do please try to keep up.
Rhetorical question.
( I was going to add that those who propose the “this or that” always profit from the “this or that” in either power or profit or both.)
Hucksters and shysters always manage to do both, at least for awhile. The mediocre ones trip up and get burned, then you got the Clintons, Kennedys etc etc, they just keep the grift going, latching onto other’s scams and bleeding them before throwing the originators of said scams to the wolves as they toddle along their way. The climate scamsters are bush league compared to them.
“Did anyone experience climate change so severe you now want to volunteer to pay more tax to fix it? Or is the World Meteorological Organisation claim that we are already experiencing an unaffordable expensive climate crisis overblown nonsense?”
This sort of radical thinking and questioning is strictly for the Journal of Controversial Ideas-
Journal of Controversial Ideas
“the basic message remains the same and we now have 28 more years of data that show significant temperature increases over land and sea” – significant? 1.5°C over a century, 2°C if you squint the right way, significant?
Everyone is so concerned about the “crisis” that there are more than 5600 coal-burning electricity plants either in operation or under construction. So since each of these remains in production for typically three decades or longer people, especially in the Developing World, would rather focus on economic growth and poverty alleviation rather than worry about real or imaginary climate crises.
The report illustrates how climate change poses a risk to the achievement of many of the Sustainable Development Goals, through a cascading chain of interrelated events. These can contribute to reinforcing or worsening existing inequalities. In addition, there is the potential for feedback loops which threaten to perpetuate the vicious cycle of climate change.
Boy they punched every hot button there: climate change, “sustainable” goals at risk, cascading chain of “worse than we thought”, inequality, feedbak loops and existential dread.
March 13 and 14 blizzard in Denver area was the second largest March storm in Denver history (behind the 2003 blizzard). People building snowmen, kids out sledding. Chess nuts boasting over open fires…
We typically get 6.8 inches for the cruelest month. But we’ve had more than nine inches so far with more snow predicted for tomorrow. Alarmists need to work harder.
Chess nuts boasting over open fires… ??
It was an indoor game where I grew up
Sorry. It’s a bad joke which I actually misquoted. Everybody should hear it at least once in their lives:
“A group of chess enthusiasts had checked into a hotel, and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. ‘But why?’ they asked, as they moved off. “Because,” he said, “I can’t stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer” – Anonymous
Was that the same hotel serving aparagus tips with hollandaise sauce on chrome plates because “there’s no plate like chrome for the hollandaise”?