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The Global Climate 2022 report
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- World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) released a State of the Global Climate 2022 report.
- The years 2015 to 2022 were the eight warmest in the 173-year instrumental record.
- South Asia and the Indian subcontinent region are known to be highly vulnerable to climatic changes.
- The global mean temperature in 2022 was 1.15°C [1.02–1.28] above the 1850–1900 average.
- The Indian monsoon onset was earlier and the withdrawal later than normal in 2022.
- The precipitation totals were above the long-term (1951–2000) average in the western Indian summer monsoon region.
- The rate of global mean sea level rise in the first decade (1993–2002) of the satellite record was 2.27 mm per year.
- It has doubled between the 2013–2022 as 4.62 mm per year.
- The Antarctic Sea ice reached a record low of 1.92 million sq.km on February 25, 2022.
- It is almost 1 million sq.km less than the long-term (1991-2020) average.
- Somalia had almost 1.2 million internally displaced people due to drought, with over 60,000 people crossing into Ethiopia and Kenya during the same period.
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