{"id":356988,"date":"2026-03-25T09:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/356988\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:06:25","slug":"every-indicator-is-flashing-red-says-un-as-it-warns-of-record-climate-imbalance-science-climate-tech-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/356988\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Every indicator is flashing red,’ says UN as it warns of record ‘climate imbalance’ | Science, Climate & Tech News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Earth’s climate is in a “state of emergency”, according to the United Nations which has warned it is more out of balance than at any other time in observed history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which is the UN’s weather agency, predicted that rapid and large-scale changes to the global climate<\/a> in recent decades would trigger harmful repercussions lasting centuries.<\/p>\n

It comes as rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere drive global warming and melt ice.<\/p>\n

The WMO’s annual “state of the global climate” report<\/a>, released on Monday, also highlighted the impact in 2025 of intense heatwaves<\/a>, heavy rainfall, wildfires, drought, tropical cyclones, storms, and flooding, including widespread death and vast economic losses.<\/p>\n

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\n United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n

It further demonstrated the cascading impacts that extreme weather<\/a> events were having worldwide, including food insecurity and displacement, and health risks driven by shifting rainfall patterns, like mosquito-borne dengue disease and heat stress.<\/p>\n

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres warned the global climate<\/a> is in a “state of emergency”.<\/p>\n

“Planet Earth is being pushed beyond its limits,” he said. “Every key climate indicator is flashing red.”<\/p>\n

The report confirmed that 2015 to 2025 represented the hottest 11 years on record, with data showing last year as the second or third hottest ever documented.<\/p>\n

It also revealed that Earth is close to breaching the key warming threshold of 1.5C – beyond which increasingly severe and compounding climate impacts are triggered – with the figure recorded at 1.43C last year.<\/p>\n

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Furthermore, the WMO found the accelerating amount of heat in the world’s oceans, which stores more than 91% of the excess heat in the Earth’s system, means the planet is moving to timescales of committed climate change for centuries.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the planet’s energy imbalance – the rate at which energy from the sun enters and leaves the Earth – reached a new high in 2025.<\/p>\n

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At the same time, heat-trapping greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have risen to their highest level in at least 800,000 years.<\/p>\n

WMO secretary-general Celeste Saulo said: “Human activities are increasingly disrupting the natural equilibrium and we will live with these consequences for hundreds and thousands of years.<\/p>\n

“On a day-to-day basis, our weather has become more extreme.”<\/p>\n

The report also outlined how climate data, early warning systems, and integrated climate services for health can protect people as the temperature rises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Earth’s climate is in a “state of emergency”, according to the United Nations which has warned it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-356988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}