UN warns more extreme weather ahead after hottest decade on record 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseThe past decade has been the hottest on record, the UN said Wednesday, warning that the higher temperatures were expected to fuel numerous extreme weather events in 2020 and beyond. “Unfortunately, we expect to see much extreme weather throughout 2020 and the coming decades, fuelled by record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,” Taalas said. – ‘Broken record’ –WMO also highlighted a new study published this week in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences with data showing that ocean heat content was at a record high in 2019. “This is not so much a record as a broken record,” added Chris Rapley, a professor of climate science at University College London.

Source: Manila Bulletin January 15, 2020 23:02 UTC