Last year was the planet’s hottest on record by a substantial margin, as climate change, and El Nino fuelled record temperatures, exacerbating heatwaves, floods, and wildfires.
El Nino is a natural phenomenon that contributes to higher temperatures in many parts of the world, and also drives tropical cyclones in the Pacific and boosts rainfall and flood risk in the Americas, and Asia.
The daily but preliminary and unofficial heat record comes after months of ‘truly unreal meteorology and climate stats for the year’.
Scientists have discovered that when the Amazon warms, so does the Tibetan Plateau, whereas the more it rains in the Amazon, the less it rains in Tibet.
Australia’s east coast has been gripped by a multi-year rain event due to La Nina. The weather phenomenon typically associated with increased rainfall caused Sydney’s suburbs to flood three times in two years.
Manchar Lake, which is used for water storage, had reached dangerous levels and posed a threat to surrounding areas in the southern Sindh province.
East China cities halted ferries and classes while Japan cancelled flights as 2022’s strongest storm lashed Taiwan and the Koreas with intense wind and rain.
Expectations of a pullback in US interest rate increases and lower currency market volatility are likely to pose challenges for Standard Chartered’s capital markets and trading business in the second half of 2022.
War, drought, shortages and the pandemic mean lives will be put at risk and there will huge economic shocks as this year presents the biggest-ever strain on global power.
Colder weather expected to head south after Beijing and other areas hit by early snow as a result of the La Niña climate phenomenon.
Global temperatures are expected to increase by 1.5 degrees Celsius or more by 2040 from pre-industrial levels unless ‘immediate, rapid and large-scale’ emission cuts are achieved.
The military build-up comes as both China and Russia have been making increasingly assertive moves in the region.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged not to give up until the final person was recovered.
At its current rate of travel, it will take the giant ice cube 20 to 30 days to run aground into South Georgia’s shallow waters.
Nearly 1,000 events were organised in around 100 countries as part of a campaign calling on countries to end their reliance on fossil fuels
