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According to a UN report, 2021 was one of the seven warmest years on record in human history.
According to a report by the World Meteorological Organization, despite the temporary decrease in global average temperatures due to La Niña events between 2020 and 2022, recent years have been the hottest since 2015, with the years 2016, 2019 and 2020 topping the top three places.
In turn, World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said, "The successive La Niña events mean that the warming in 2021 was relatively less pronounced compared to recent years, yet the year 2021 was still warmer than its predecessors affected by La Niña."
The impacts of climate change and weather-related hazards have had life-altering and devastating effects on societies, Taalas noted, noting that the long-term global warming as a result of increased greenhouse gases is now much greater than the year-to-year fluctuations in average global temperatures caused by climate factors that cause climate change. occur naturally.
The organization expects that global warming and other long-term climate change trends will continue as a result of record levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
It is noteworthy that the term "La Niña" refers to the widespread cooling of surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, with significant impacts on weather conditions worldwide.
