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  ClIMATE CHANGE ACCELERATES IN 2022 Some touchingly optimistic souls may have thought that things would surely come back closer to “normal” after the climate chaos of 2021. Unfortunately 2022 is shaping up to be even worse. According to the  World Meteorological Organization , after a post pandemic rebound in 2021, concentrations of GHG continued to increase in first half 2022. More precisely, latest research data from the  Global Carbon Project  found that global carbon emissions were 1.2% higher again in the first five months of 2022 compared with 2019. For the NCEI's  Global Annual Temperature Rankings Outlook ,  there is a greater than  99% chance 2022 will rank among the 10-warmest years on record  but an 11% chance the year will rank among the top five. In fact,  2022 was the world’s sixth-hottest July  on record, according to NOAA. What follows is a brief look at some examples:   POLAR & GLACIER ICE: A GROWING DANGE...

  CLIMATE CHAOS IN 2021 After a short lived drop in 2020 due to the pandemic, global  warming and GHG emissions resumed their upward march.  2021 was the sixth-hottest year on record . The average global temperature in 2021 was about 1.11°C above the pre-industrial (1850-1900) levels. As for GHG, they rose by 6% in 2021  to 36.3 billion tonnes, their highest ever level, as the world economy rebounded strongly from the Covid-19 crisis and relied heavily on coal to power that growth, according to new  IEA analysis  released in March 2022. Nonetheless, the more advanced economies did show modest declines, while coal dependent India and China rebounded sharply. In fact,  coal is the fossil fuel that is responsible for the largest share (40%) of GHG emissions .  Chaotic weather conditions increased in 2021, including  Heat waves and droughts in Europe and the American West Wildfires around the world Deadly flooding in Europe Tornadoes on the ...