WMO: Global Temperatures Will Remain At The Highest Level By 2025-2029

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JAKARTA - The United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) issued a global temperature statement that it would remain at its highest level in history by 2025-2029.

"Global climate predictions indicate temperatures are expected to continue at or approach the highest level in the next five years, which will increase the risk and climate impact on society," read a WMO statement quoted by ANTARA from Sputnik, Wednesday, May 28.

The statement said the average annual global temperature near the Earth's surface for 2025 to 2029 is expected to increase between 1.2 degrees Celsius and 1.9 degrees Celsius rather than the average temperature during 1850-1900.

"We have just experienced the warmest ten years we have ever recorded. Unfortunately, this WMO report does not indicate any improvement over the coming years, and this means there will be a greater negative impact on our economy, daily life, ecosystem and planet," Deputy Secretary General WMO Ko Barrett said in the statement.

In addition, there is also a 70 percent chance that the average warm-up in 2025-2029 will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to 2024-2028 which is only 47 percent.

As a result, the Arctic will experience more than three and a half times the global average, reaching 2.4 degrees Celsius compared to the 1991-2020 base period, according to the statement.

The organization also estimates further decline in sea ice concentrations in the Barents Sea, Bering Sea, and Okhotsk Sea.

At the same time, wetter conditions (rainfalls higher) than the average are expected to occur in the northern, northern European, Alaskan and northern Siberian Sahel in May-September 2025-2029, while the Amazon region may experience conditions that are drier than the average in the same season.

In January, WMO said 2024 was the warmest year ever recorded.