In 2022, the havoc of flood and drought was seen all over the world.
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The United Nations’ meteorological agency – the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released its assessment of the 2022 season. The agency has said that 2022 was such a bad year in terms of weather that it seemed as if people became victims of chaos because of it. The report said that in 2022, the whole world appeared to be battling deadly floods, droughts and heat waves.
According to the WMO’s State of the Global Climate 2022 report, the warming and acidity of the oceans around the world was at its record high and Antarctic sea ice and Europe’s icy Alps glaciers reached their record low levels. In this report, it was said that the water level of the seas has increased globally. Along with this, the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide and methane in the air is the highest recorded in modern records.
The glaciers, which were tested by scientists to test the weather conditions in the world, have melted up to about 1.3 meters i.e. 51 inches in just 2022. With this, it happened for the first time in history that even in the snowy glaciers of Switzerland, there was absolutely no snow left in the summer season.
It has been said in the report that the water level of the seas is increasing twice as fast as it was in the 1990s. WMO Secretary-General Peteri Taalas said that due to the rapidly melting glaciers, the water level of the oceans could rise by 20 to 39 inches (one to one and a half meters) by the end of this century.
He warned that even with curbs on emissions of carbon and other greenhouse gases, negative changes in weather patterns and all parameters could continue until 2060. According to Talas, pollution has already caused significant damage to the environment, due to which the world has already lost the game of melting glaciers and rising sea levels.