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La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, November 8, 2024, p. 20
New York., The United Nations Organization (UN) estimated yesterday that the world is far from being prepared for the calamities of climate change and we are not up to parthis a few days before the start of the COP29 climate change conference (Conference of the Parties) in Baku, Azerbaijan.
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, mentioned a list of recent climate catastrophes worldwide, including floods, fires and hurricanes.
New planetary temperature record
In turn, the European climate agency Copernicus predicts that for the second year in a row, the Earth will be hotter than ever, and for the first time this year the planet reached more than 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming compared to the pre-industrial average.
It’s this relentless nature of warming that I think is worrying.warned Carlo Buontempo, director of Copernicus. He indicated that the planet would not see such a long sequence of record temperatures, without the constant increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that drive global warming.
This October was 1.65 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and was the 15th month in a 16-month span in which the global average surface air temperature was 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
According to Copernicus, October was the second warmest October globally, after October 2023, with 15.25 degrees; 0.80 degrees higher than the October 1991-2020 average.
Donald Trump, president-elect of the United States, yesterday described climate change as deceptionand assured that he plans to withdraw his country from the historic 2015 Paris climate agreement at the beginning of his second presidency, while his political advisors proposed removing it from the underlying United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
