Climate change
He pointed to severe hurricanes in the Atlantic and the Caribbean, temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius in Pakistan, Iran and Oman, monsoon floods in Asia, and a drought in East Africa.
“Many of these events — and detailed scientific studies will determine exactly how many — bear the telltale sign of climate change caused by increased greenhouse gas concentrations from human activities,” Taalas said.
Over 137 years, the average temperature over l and has increased by 0.10 degrees Celsius every decade.
In 2017, average temperature from January to September was 1.1 degree Celsius above the 18801900 average, with an error margin of 0.1 degrees, according to the WMO report, which is based on five global temperature data sets.
At the two-day Bonn climate talks, signatories of the Paris climate agreement will thrash out the details of how to keep the rise in global temperature within 2 degrees Celsius of pre-industrial levels.
Pre-industrial levels are used as a benchmark because the industrial revolution in Europe pushed global temperatures upwards in the late 18th century due to a sharp rise in greenhouse gas emissions.
These gases lead to global warming by trapping heat in the earth’s atmosphere. Greenhouse gas concentration peaked in 2016, with carbon dioxide levels reaching 403.3 parts per million. Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas.
The UN’S Emissions Gap Report 2017 shows that even if all the Paris agreement signatories meet their emission targets, it still won’t be enough to keep the rise in global average temperature below 2 degrees Celsius. Dinakaran.
“The prime minister is sending a strong message. As far as Tamil Nadu is concerned, the BJP is still not a strong force,” said one senior DMK leader on condition of anonymity.
“By extending this courtesy, they hope to convince the people of Tamil Nadu that they indeed respect Tamil Nadu’s leaders and thereby gain some goodwill.”
Monday’s meeting is also a dramatic reversal from Karunanidhi’s birthday celebrations this June when the DMK omitted the BJP from a string of national leaders invited.
Modi was accompanied by state governor Banwarilal Purohit, defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman, minister of state for shipping Pon Radhakrishnan and state BJP chief Tamilisai Soundararajan.
Soundararajan told reporters that the prime minister invited Karunanidhi to visit Delhi. DMK leaders, including Kanimozhi, who is the daughter of Karunanidhi and a Rajya Sabha MP, were among those present during the meeting.
The BJP is readying its battleplan for the general elections in 2019 and is looking towards southern India to offset any setbacks in central and northern India, where the BJP swept in 2014.
Tamil Nadu accounts for 39 Lok Sabha seats and the BJP holds just one.