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A Somali boy's mission to find food as climate change takes its toll

Each morning in this Somali border town, 11-year-old Bashir Nur Salat plots his day's mission behind a crooked wire fence. Armed with only a friend's yellow school shirt, a borrowed book and toothy grin, he eyes his prize through the mesh: lunch.

Reuters

Eco-Crisis: Critical Climate Indicators Climb To Alarming Levels

Rises in greenhouse gasses, sea levels and ocean heat/acidification must be checked to protect the global population, report says.

Zenger

Desertification summit ends with promises to restore a billion hectares of land

The COP15 summit in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, which was focused on desertification and its impacts, closed with commitments by 196 countries to restore one billion hectares of degraded land between now and 2030. They also agreed to enhance drought preparedness, response and resilience.

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Texas’ Insane Heat Wave Shows Our Grid Isn’t Ready for Climate Change

As weather gets more extreme and the population booms, ERCOT and state leaders need to get a grip on reality.

Texas Observer

5 extreme weather events recorded in Ireland last year including rare tropical nights

A heatwave of 10 days from July 16 saw record temperatures at 14 of the country’s 25 weather stations

Dublin Live

World’s oceans at most acidic level in 26,000 years, climate report warns

The world's oceans grew to their warmest and most acidic levels on record last year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday, as United Nations officials warned that war in Ukraine threatened global climate commitments.

Reuters

Record Northern Ireland temperature highlighted in global WMO report on impacts of escalating climate crisis

Five extreme weather events were recorded across the island of Ireland last year as a result of the crisis

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Climate change benchmarks all set records last year, report finds

Key data released Wednesday underscores how swiftly human activities are reshaping the climate.

Axios

Five extreme weather events recorded in Ireland in 2021 due to escalating climate crisis

The World Meteorological Organisation warned in its State of the Global Climate report that four key climate change records were broken in 2021

Irish Mirror

World Meteorological Organisation warns of catastrophic global climate shift

The United Nations weather monitoring body has announced that key climate change indicators set record highs in 2021, warning that the Earth's energy system is driving humanity towards catastrophe.

Radio France Internationale

UN floats plan to boost renewables as climate worries mount

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is launching a five-point plan to jump-start broader use of renewable energies as the U.N. weather agency reported that greenhouse gas concentrations, ocean heat, sea-level rise, and ocean acidification hit new records last year

The Independent UK

Critical climate indicators broke records in 2021, says UN

World Meteorological Organization says extreme weather wreaked heavy toll on human lives

The Guardian - UK

Key global warming threshold may be crossed in next 5 years, study says

The world is on track to breach a key global warming threshold, according to a new report.

Tribune News Service

Even Chance World Will Breach 1.5C Warming Within 5 Years, Says UN

There is an even chance that global temperatures will temporarily breach the benchmark of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in one of the next five years, the United Nations warned Tuesday. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change saw countries agree to cap global warming at "well below" 2C…

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There is a 50% chance a key global warming threshold will be crossed within five years

There is also a 93% chance a new global temperature record will be set in next five years.

Reuters

World could see 1.5C of warming in next five years, WMO reports

The world faces a 50% chance of warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, if only briefly, by 2026, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday.

The Hindu

World Meteorological Organisation: ‘Premature to attribute extreme heat solely to climate change’

Heatwaves more intense and are starting earlier than in past in India, says World Meteorological Organisation

The Independent UK

A nasty I of the storm: Ida is 12th I hurricane name retired

Meteorologists are retiring the name Ida from the list of Atlantic hurricane names

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The Independent UK

Everyone on the planet needs to be covered by early warning system for extreme weather, says UN secretary general

One in three people globally are still not covered by lifesaving early warning systems

Axios

Extreme weather prompts UN early warnings push

The Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization (WMO) aims to end this disparity within five years.

Reuters

West curbs Russia’s access to weather data that some fear could aid attack planning in Ukraine

A major supplier of meteorological data from Western and other governments suspended cooperation with Russia on Tuesday, becoming the latest weather-related agency to restrict information sharing in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Independent UK

Lightning ‘megaflash’ the length of three US states sets world record

This distance is the equivalent of London to Hamburg

Tribune News Service

477-mile lightning bolt across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi sets new world record

A single lightning bolt that stretched nearly 500 miles — crossing three U.S. states — has been certified as the world’s longest lightning strike.

Al Jazeera

Lightning bolt extending across 3 US states sets global record

Bolt of lightning stretching for 768km across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi in 2020 is new world record holder: WMO.

The Conversation

2021 was one of the hottest years on record – and it could also be the coldest we'll ever see again

Well, it’s official: 2021 was one of the planet’s seven hottest years since records began, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) declared this week. The year was about 1.11℃ above pre-industrial levels – the seventh year in a row that the average global temperature rise edged over 1℃.

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