The world is in a state of climate emergency, the head of the United Nations declared Sunday, following the release of the latest State of the Global Climate report from the World Meteorological Organization.
“Earth is being pushed beyond its limits while every key climate indicator is flashing red,” said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. “Earth’s energy imbalance, the gap between heat abso...
The strongest version of this narrative is grounded in scientific consensus: Earth’s climate system is destabilizing due to human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, with measurable impacts on global temperatures, ocean heat, and extreme weather. The introduction of Earth’s energy imbalance as a key metric provides a clearer, more direct measure of climate disruption than temperature anomalies alone, avoiding debates over fractional degree changes. The report’s reliance on global data sources and ...