WMO confirms 2023 as warmest year on record ‘by a huge margin’

WMO confirms 2023 as warmest year on record ‘by a huge margin’

The World Meteorological Organization uses six leading international datasets from across the globe to monitor global temperatures, which reveal a new annual temperature average of 1.45°C set against the pre-industrial era (1850-1900).  Every month between June and December set new records. July and August were the two hottest months ever recorded, WMO said. The 1.5°C…

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First-ever World Seagrass Day focuses on conservation

COP28: UN says staggering $7 trillion spent every year on investments that fuel climate change

The report from the UN’s environmental wing, UNEP, also revealed that despite decades of calls for ending finance flows towards sectors that harm some of humanity’s most valuable assets, those investments currently account for a whopping 7 percent of global GDP. Saturday’s report launch comes as negotiations on the conference’s outcome text are shifting into…

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Urdu University;  After a year and a half, the process for the selection of the permanent vice-chancellor started

Urdu University; After a year and a half, the process for the selection of the permanent vice-chancellor started

Karachi: In the Federal Urdu University, formal proceedings have been started for the selection of a new and permanent vice-chancellor after about one and a half years. The meeting of the search committee of the university has been convened on Wednesday, December 6, which will be chaired by HEC chairman Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed himself as…

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2023 likely hottest year on record; further spike expected with El Niño

2023 likely hottest year on record; further spike expected with El Niño

That’s the message from UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which said on Wednesday that for the calendar year to date, the global mean temperature is the highest ever recorded, 1.43 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and sea ice in the Antarctic remains at record low levels. WMO expects the warming El Niño climate pattern to last…

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Hottest September on record puts 2023 on track to be warmest year ever

Hottest September on record puts 2023 on track to be warmest year ever

Average surface temperature reached 16.38°C, or 0.5°C above the previous record in September 2020. Last month was roughly 1.75°C warmer compared to the pre-industrial period. It was also  0.93°C warmer than the 1991-2020 baseline which is used as a practical tool for climate sensitive sectors like agriculture. The heat is on WMO said this continues…

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Arrival of more than 40 million passengers at Dubai International Airport in the first 6 months of the year

Arrival of more than 40 million passengers at Dubai International Airport in the first 6 months of the year

Dubai International Airport says that 4.16 million passengers arrived here in the first half of this year. The record of passenger arrivals in 2019 has been broken for the first time before the corona epidemic. The number of passengers at Dubai Airport increased by 100% during the first 6 months of 2023 compared to the…

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