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Monday 7 noveMber 2022

UN weather report: Climate woes bad and getting worse faster

By SETH BORENSTEIN more than just warming
AP Science Writer temperatures on land. Ice,
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt both Greenland's ice sheet
(AP) — Earth's warming and the world's glaciers,
weather and rising seas are are shrinking precipitously,
getting worse and doing the report said. For the 26th
so faster than before, the year in a row, Greenland
World Meteorological Or- lost ice when all types of
ganization warned Sunday ice are factored in. The vol-
in a somber note as world ume of glacier snow in Swit-
leaders started gathering zerland dropped by more
for international climate than one-third from 2001 to
negotiations. 2022, the report said.
"The latest State of the But 90% of the heat
Global Climate report is a trapped on Earth goes into
chronicle of climate chaos," the ocean and the upper
United Nations Secretary- 2000 meters (6561 feet) of
General Antonio Guterres the ocean is getting warm-
said. "We must answer the er faster. The rate of warm-
planet's distress signal with ing the last 15 years is 67%
action -- ambitious, cred- faster than since 1971, the
ible climate action." report said.
In its annual state of the cli- Women carry belongings salvaged from their flooded home after monsoon rains, in the Qambar That ocean heat "will con-
mate report, the United Na- Shahdadkot district of Sindh Province, of Pakistan, Sept. 6, 2022. Earth’s warming weather and rising tinue to warm in the future
tions' weather agency said seas are getting worse and doing so faster than before, the World Meteorological Organization – a change which is irre-
warned Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, in a somber note as world leaders started gathering for international
that sea level rise in the past climate negotiations in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. versible on centennial to
decade was double what it millennial time scales," the
was in the 1990s and since "The melting (of ice) game people in extreme weath- ganization reads like a report said.
January 2020 has jumped we have lost and also the er. The report highlights the lab report for a critically Outside experts weren't
at a higher rate than that. sea level rate," WMO chief summer's incredible flood ill patient, but in this case surprised by the report and
Since the decade began, Petteri Taalas told The Asso- in Pakistan that killed more the patient is Earth," said said no one should be.
seas are rising at 5 millime- ciated Press. "There are no than 1,700 people and dis- climate scientist Jennifer "What climate scientists
ters a year (.2 inches) com- positive indicators so far." placed 7.9 million, a crip- Francis of the Woodwell have warned about for de-
pared to 2.1 millimeters (.08 The only reason that the pling four-year drought in Climate Research Center cades is upon us. And will
inches) in the 1990s. globe hasn't broken annu- East Africa that has more in Cape Cod, who wasn't continue to worsen without
The last eight years have al temperature records in than 18 million hungry, the part of the report. action,'' said University of
been the warmest on re- the past few years is a rare Yangtze River drying to its Levels of heat-trapping Georgia meteorology pro-
cord, the WMO said in a three-year La Niña weather lowest level in August, and carbon dioxide, meth- fessor Marshall Shepherd.
report that didn't break phenomenon, he said. record heat-waves broil- ane and nitrous oxide all "Two things must go away:
new ground but was a col- The data on sea level and ing people in Europe and reached record high levels, Climate delayism and
lection of recent weather average temperatures are China. with potent methane in- speaking about climate
trends, data and impacts nothing compared to how "This latest report from the creasing at a record pace, change impacts in the fu-
in one central place. climate change has hit World Meteorological Or- the report said. That means ture tense. It's here."q

Monitors say 10 killed in Syria shelling of tent settlements

reached between Russia wounded, it said, some months ago, the observa-
and Turkey in March 2020 400 people had been dis- tory said. A Human Rights
that ended a Russian- placed. Watch report released last
backed government offen- The Britain-based Syr- month found that Turkey
sive on Idlib province. Idlib ian Observatory for Human had forcibly returned hun-
is the last major rebel-held Rights, an opposition war dreds of Syrian refugees
stronghold in Syria. monitor, reported that gov- over a six-month period.
The truce has been repeat- ernment forces fired about Rebel factions respond-
edly violated over the past 30 rockets toward rebel- ed by targeting govern-
two years killing and wound- held areas Sunday morn- ment positions with artillery
ing scores of people. Three ing. Those areas included and missiles in the area of
top United Nations officials the Maram camp and Saraqib, east of Idlib, and

Doctors treat a child wounded in shelling at a hospital in the dealing with the Syrian cri- other camps just northwest the al-Ghab plain, the ob-
town of Idlib, Syria, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022. Syrian government sis — Muhannad Hadi, Ay- of the provincial capital of servatory reported.
forces shelled tent settlements housing families displaced by man Gharaibeh and Su- Idlib, where nine were killed The opposition's Syrian Civil
the country's conflict in the rebel-held northwest early Sunday, dipto Mukerjee — said in and 77 wounded. Defense, also known as
killing at least six people and wounding dozens, opposition war a joint statement Sunday Another man was killed White Helmets, reported
monitors and first responders said. that they are "deeply con- and several wounded in that nine people were
(AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed) cerned by today's escala- the southern countryside killed, including two chil-
(AP) — Syrian government ing at least 10 people and tion of hostilities" in Idlib. of Idlib while picking olives, dren and a woman, and
forces shelled tent settle- wounding dozens, opposi- The statement noted that the observatory reported. about 70 injured in shelling
ments housing families dis- tion war monitors and first a 4-month-old baby was One of the men killed in targeting at least six camps
placed by the country's responders said. reportedly among those Sunday's strikes was a refu- west of the capital. It said
conflict in the rebel-held The shelling was the lat- killed by the strikes. In ad- gee who had been deport- the dead included four chil-
northwest early Sunday, kill- est violation of a truce dition to those killed and ed by Turkish authorities two dren and one woman.q