Rapid ocean warming has triggered a drop in global fish populations and has threatened communities and fishing economies.
Sea levels also hit record highs last year after rising an average of 4.5 mm every year in roughly the last decade, the WMO said. That's more than double the rate seen between 1993 and 2002 and is mainly due to the accelerated loss of ice mass from melting ice sheets. The sea level rise puts hundreds of millions of coastal dwellers at risk of more intense and frequent storms and floods, the WMO warned.
"Sea level rise, ocean heat and acidification will continue for hundreds of years unless means to remove carbon from the atmosphere are invented," Taalas said. Scientists have warned the world has already warmed roughly 1.1 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and is set to see global temperatures rise 2.4 degrees Celsius by 2100. The past seven years have been the warmest seven years on record.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres in a statement criticized the"the dismal litany of humanity's failure to tackle climate disruption" and called for urgent action to grab the"low-hanging fruit" of shifting energy systems away from planet-warming fossil fuels to renewable energy.
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