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      Part of the Guadiana River dried up in Villarta de los Montes, in the Spanish region of Extremadura, on August 16, 2022.

      'No More Time to Waste': WMO Analysis Finds Europe Is Fastest-Warming Continent

      "This annual report is just a snapshot of the state of Europe's climate. It provides a sobering picture," said one expert. "Extreme weather killed 16,000 people in Europe last year, mostly due to the effects of the summer heat."

      Jessica Corbett
      Jun 19, 2023

      "Chilling." "Shocking." "Sobering."

      Those are some expert responses to The State of the Climate in Europe 2022, the second annual report published Monday by the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).

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      A silhouette is seen in front of flames at a wildfire near Belin-Beliet, southwestern France, overnight on August 11, 2022.

      Climate Crisis Likely to Intensify El Niño, Pushing Global Temperatures Past 1.5°C Threshold

      "It's the first time in history that it's more likely than not that we will exceed 1.5°C," said a co-author of a new U.N. report.

      Julia Conley
      May 17, 2023

      Naturally-occurring El Niño events have resulted in hotter global temperatures for thousands of years, but a United Nations agency warned Tuesday that the warming trend that scientists expect to form in the coming months will be intensified by heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions—likely resulting in an average global temperature that's more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for at least a year.

      "A warming El Niño is expected to develop in the coming months and this will combine with human-induced climate change to push global temperatures into uncharted territory," said Prof. Petteri Taalas, secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), as the agency released its Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update ahead of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event.

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      Copies of the Evening Standard at Victoria Station report on the hottest day in U.K.'s history

      UK Saw Hottest Year on Record in 2022 as Climate Chaos Grows in Europe

      "Higher temperatures in the U.K. are contributing to more severe heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires but also more intense rainfall events and associated flooding," said one climate scientist.

      Julia Conley
      Jan 05, 2023

      Last year was the hottest year on record in the United Kingdom, the national meteorological service reported Thursday, emphasizing that the human-caused climate emergency was what drove the country to see record-breaking heat last summer and an annual average temperature of 50°F, or 10.03°C.

      Experts at the Met Office expect to see average yearly temperatures above 10°C as frequently as every three to four years as fossil fuel extraction and carbon emissions persist, while "in a natural climate" without human-induced planetary heating, such temperatures "would occur around once every 500 years," according to climate attribution scientist Nikos Christidis.

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