"The impact of climate change is accelerating": troubling report from the UN – 03/28/2019

The impact of climate change has continued to skyrocket in 2018, with new temperature rises and clear consequences for citizens around the world, according to UN Thursday, which insisted that a reaction immediately.

Two million displaced people, $ 49,000 million in casualties, 1,600 deaths in forest fires and increased hunger caused by drought are some of the consequences denounced in the report "The state of the climate 2018 ".

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"The socio-economic impact of climate change accelerates ", according to the badysis presented by the UN through the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in which it is noted that record levels of greenhouse gases in the 39; atmosphere carry "the temperatures of the planet to levels more and more dangerous" "

The results of this study led the secretary general of the organization, António Guterres, to convene a new climate summit and to call "leaders" to "not come with speeches, come up with plans".

The document traces a very disturbing panorama of everything concerning global warming. Last year he recorded the fourth highest average global temperature because there are data, but it is the hottest of all those in which the La Niña phenomenon occurred, marked by lower temperatures in the Pacific. According to WMO, this situation suggests that the global warming trend continues unabated.

"Europe also recorded record temperatures, while an unusual cold in North America and heat waves hit Australia, as well as Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets hit troughs. record, "says the text.

Among the effects of climate change in 2018, the UN report says that "most of the natural hazards that affected nearly 62 million people have been badociated with extreme weather events." It is also detailed that more than 1,600 deaths are badociated with heat waves and intense forest fires in Europe, Japan and the United States.

Other climatic indicators, such as ocean heat reached new heights last year, exceeding the record set in 2017. According to the WMO, the heat contained in the seas provides a direct measure of the accumulation of energy in the upper layers of the ocean, where end up more 90% of energy trapped by greenhouse gases.

As well sea ​​level continued to rise, which in 2018 had a world average level about 3.7 millimeters higher than that of 2017, a new record, due to the withdrawal of the ice sheets.

The most urgent problem, according to the WMO, is the maintenance increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which should continue to rise in 2019. Despite commitments made to try to reduce these emissions, last year has increased in all regions of the world, with the exception of Europe.

"Climate change is progressing faster than our efforts to meet it," Guterres said.