{"id":72023,"date":"2020-12-05T12:39:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T07:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=72023"},"modified":"2021-01-07T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T07:23:20","slug":"state-of-the-global-climate-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/state-of-the-global-climate-report\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Global Climate Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/climate-change\/global-warming-is-real-and-2020-is-among-3-warmest-year-ever-74498\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>\u00a0The World Meteorological Organization(WMO) has released the annual State of Global Climate Report,2020 to keep a track of global warming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Highlights from the report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hottest Year:\u00a0<\/strong>2020 will be one of the three hottest years just behind 2016 and 2019.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rise in Global Temperature:\u00a0<\/strong>The global mean surface temperature for January-October 2020 was 1.2 degree Celsius higher than the pre-industrial baseline (1850-1900).For that period, 2020 is the second-warmest year on record.<\/li>\n<li><strong>High Temperature over Ocean Surfaces:\u00a0<\/strong>80% of ocean areas have experienced at least one marine heat wave (MHW) so far in 2020.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Global sea-level rise<\/strong>\u00a0was also similar to 2019 value.This was mainly due to the increased melting of the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Consequences:\u00a0<\/strong>Extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones, floods, heavy rainfall and droughts were the consequence of global warming that impacted many parts of the world.\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Read Also :<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/government-schemes-and-programs-in-news-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Government Schemes for upsc<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>World Meteorological Organization(WMO):\u00a0<\/strong>It is an intergovernmental organization established by the ratification of the WMO Convention in 1950.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Members:\u00a0<\/strong>193 Member States and Territories.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:\u00a0<\/strong>It is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters:\u00a0<\/strong>Geneva, Switzerland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Click here News:\u00a0The World Meteorological Organization(WMO) has released the annual State of Global Climate Report,2020 to keep a track of global warming. Facts: Key Highlights from the report: Hottest Year:\u00a02020 will be one of the three hottest years just behind 2016 and 2019. Rise in Global Temperature:\u00a0The global mean surface temperature for January-October 2020&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/state-of-the-global-climate-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State of the Global Climate Report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1305],"tags":[1304],"class_list":["post-72023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment-2","category-index-reports-bodies","tag-env_4","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700791634,"cached_date":1704723006},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}