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As climate crisis reaches pivotal moment, what on earth are world leaders waiting for?

2023 is officially the hottest year on record. World leaders gathering today in Dubai for the UN Climate Change Conference already know what they must do to reverse global warming but, as King Charles is set to warn them, this must be a ‘critical turning point’. Senior climate correspondent Louise…

The Independent UK

U.N. Climate Change Conference Opens During Hottest Year on Record

It seems unlikely that activists' demands to "keep 1.5 alive" will be met.

Reason

UN confirms 2023 set to be hottest year ever recorded

As the Cop28 climate conference opens in Dubai, the United Nations weather agency has warned that 2023 has broken several climate records and is set to be the hottest ever recorded.

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‘Deafening cacophony of broken records’ as 2023 set to be hottest year on record

Searing temperatures, floods, wildfires and crop failure have been wrecking lives across the world with conditions expected to worsen

The Independent UK

2023 Set To Be Hottest Year On Record: UN

This year is set to be the hottest ever recorded, the UN said Thursday, demanding urgent action to rein in global warming and stem the havoc following in its wake.

International Business Times

Record killer heat warning as world leaders gather for Cop28

July was probably the hottest month on land in the last 120,000 years, say experts

Evening Standard

UN weather agency says 2023 is the hottest year on record, warns of further climate extremes ahead

The U.N. weather agency says 2023 is all but certain to be the hottest year on record, and warning of worrying trends that suggest increasing floods, forest fires, glacier melt, and heat waves in the future

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‘Climate collapse in real time’: UN head António Guterres urges Cop28 to act

World Meteorological Organization says 2023 will be hottest year on record, leaving ‘trail of devastation and despair’

The Guardian - UK

Climate-heating gases reach record highs, UN reports

World Meteorological Organization sees ‘no end in sight to the rising trend’, largely driven by fossil fuel burning

The Guardian - UK

Most countries can’t access climate data

A report finds only 23 percent of countries use climate data to inform their public health strategies

Salon

World ill-prepared to stop climate crisis reversing progress on health, says study

UN meteorological body finds health experts have access to heat warning services in only half of affected countries

The Guardian - UK

Climate change 'threatens to reverse decades of progress on human health'

UN weather agency warns of heightened risk of disease and heat deaths

Evening Standard

A Sizzling, Record-Breaking Summer

Experts warn that increasingly high temperatures are "a clear consequence of the warming of the climate system."

Texas Observer

Fury over ‘avoidable’ deaths in Libya floods as thousands buried in mass graves with 11,000 confirmed killed

Officials in hardest-hit city of Derna believe toll could reach 20,000 – amid calls for inquiry into collapse of dams that drove flooding

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Al Jazeera

Functioning weather service may have prevented Libya flood casualties: WMO

WMO boss says many people could have been saved if divided country had a normally operating meteorological service.

The Guardian - UK

Heat denial: influencers question validity of high temperatures

Tweet viewed millions of times claimed ground temperature was being confused with air temperature

The Independent UK

Greece weather forecast: more storms batter Europe as tourists trapped abroad

Skiathos and other parts of Greece and Turkey to be hit with further rain and thunderstorms

Radio France Internationale

UN warns of 'climate breakdown' after searing summer heat

The United Nations on Wednesday warned that “climate breakdown has begun” after Earth experienced its hottest three months on record. The announcement comes on the same day that EU climate monitors said 2023 would likely be the hottest year in human history.

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The Guardian - UK

World meteorologists point to ‘vicious cycle’ of heatwaves and air pollution

The climate crisis and soaring temperatures are worsening air quality, WMO says, with ‘knock-on effects’

Al Jazeera

UN announces ‘climate breakdown’ after record summer heat

Scientists blame ever warming human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.

WEKU

This summer was the hottest on record across the Northern Hemisphere, the U.N. says

The world's oceans were the hottest ever recorded, while Antarctica continued to set records for low amounts of sea ice, the World Meteorological Organization said.

The Independent UK

It's official. Meteorologists say this summer's swelter was a global record breaker for high heat

The U.N. weather agency says Earth endured its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures

The Independent UK

First ever Africa climate summit aims to address ‘climate blind spot’

African countries expected to agree a series of green deals, with the continent facing the brunt of the climate crisis

Al Jazeera

Africa faces ‘climate risk blind spot’ amid lack of weather radar

Vast expanse of the 54-nation continent is relatively unserved and unwarned by inadequate weather forecasts.

The Independent UK

As Africa opens a climate summit, poor weather forecasting keeps the continent underprepared

Much of the world takes daily weather forecasts for granted

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