GENEVA, Switzerland – This year is on course to be one of the three warmest ever recorded, the United Nations said Wednesday, as the UN chief warned the world was on the brink of “climate catastrophe”.
The past six years, 2015 to 2020, are set to make up all six of the hottest years since modern records began in 1850, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in its provisional 2020 State of the Global Climate report.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the 2020 report spells out “how close we are to climate catastrophe”.
“Apocalyptic fires and floods, cyclones and hurricanes are increasingly the new normal,” he said in a speech at Colu…
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