UAE and global warming

The Earth has just experienced its warmest December-February since records began 128 years ago, National Oceanic and Atmospheric.

The El Nino phenomenon, an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern Pacific, contributed to the chart-busting combined global land and ocean surface temperature, the NOAA said. In the northern hemisphere, the combined temperature increase was the warmest at 0.91C, while the southern hemisphere recorded a temperature 0.49C above average. During the past century, global temperatures have increased at a rate of 0.06C per decade.

Experts say that if the trend continues, up to a third of the world’s highest glaciers could melt away by 2050 and half will disappear by 2090. The report comes just over a month after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said global warming had probably been caused by humans.

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