Just over a year after the global community was thrown into a tailspin by the sudden, devastating visitation by the coronavirus pandemic, the planet has been delivered more bad news about the threatened intervention of a phenomenon that could pose a no less deadly threat to the well-being of the international community.
This week, the recently released World Meteorological Organization (WMO) State of the Global Climate report revealed that the earth’s temperature is continuing to rise unabated with 2020 being one of the three hottest years on record. Last year the global average temperature was about 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. A figure which the report says is “dangerously close” to the 1.5-degree Celsius limit being advocated by climate scientists as a cutoff point for staving off the worst excesses of climate change.