海洋處於 26,000 年來的最高酸性水平：報告

Recently Yahoo News on-line reported the following:

Oceans at most acidic level in 26,000 years: report

Wed, May 18, 2022, 2:13 PM

Reuters

STORY: Oceans reached their hottest and most acidic levels on record in 2021, and melting ice sheets pushed sea levels to new heights, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday (May 18).

The organization painted a stark picture in its annual global climate report, with Secretary-General Petteri Taalas laying out the numbers.

“It used to be about 2 millimeters per year 20 years ago, but recently, we have seen 4.5 millimeters per year for sea-levels rise which is a record so far.”

Atmospheric levels of climate-warming carbon dioxide and methane also surpassed previous records, the report added.

And with last year’s global average temperature 1.11 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial average, the world is inching closer to the 1.5 degree threshold.

That’s where the effects from warming are expected to become drastic, warns U.N. special adviser Selwin Hart.

“Without much, much, much greater actions and much greater ambition, much greater urgency, we are about to lose the narrow window of opportunity to keep the 1.5 degree goal of the Paris agreement alive.”

U.N. chief Antonio Guterres called the report a failure of humanity.

The latest U.N. climate assessment warns humanity must drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions.

With energy prices going up and European countries trying to replace Russia as an energy supplier, Guterres said the conflict in Ukraine is only making matters worse.

"The war in Ukraine and its immediate effects on energy prices is yet another wake-up call. The only sustainable future is a renewable one. Time is running out."

The WMO report said the ocean warmed significantly faster in the last 20 years.

That trend is not expected to end anytime soon and the organization warned the impacts of that change could take centuries or even millennia to reverse.

Translation

故事：世界氣象組織(WMO)週三（5 月 18 日）表示，海洋在 2021 年達到了有記錄以來最熱和最酸的水平，融化的冰層將水平線推到了新的高度。

該組織在其年度全球氣候報告中描繪了一幅明確的畫面，秘書長 Petteri Taalas 列出了這些數字。

“20 年前，水平線曾經是每年升大約 2 毫米，但最近，我們看到它每年上升 4.5 毫米，這是迄今為止的一個記錄。”

報告補充說，氣候變暖的二氧化碳和甲烷的大氣水平也超過了以前的記錄。

去年的全球平均氣溫比工業化前的平均氣溫高出 1.11 攝氏度，世界正逐漸接近 1.5 度的門檻。

聯合國特別顧問 Selwin Hart 警告說，這就是由氣候變暖影響, 預計會變得極端的地方。

“如果沒有更多、更多、更大的行動和更大的雄心、更大的堅持，我們將失去保持巴黎協議 1.5 度目標的狹窄機會之窗。”

聯合國秘書長 Antonio Guterres 稱這份報告是人類的失敗。

最新的聯合國氣候評估警告人類必須大幅減少溫室氣體排放。

隨著能源價格上漲和歐洲國家試圖取代俄羅斯成為能源供應國，古特雷斯說，烏克蘭的衝突只會使事情變得更糟。

“烏克蘭戰爭及其對能源價格的直接影響是另一個警號。唯一可持續的未來是要能夠再生的。時間不多了。”

世界氣象組織的報告稱，在過去的 20 年裡，海洋變暖的速度明顯加快。

預計這種趨勢不會很快結束，該組織警告說，這種變化的影響可能需要幾個世紀甚至幾千年才能扭轉。

So, according to the World Meteorological Organization our oceans reach their hottest and most acidic levels on record in 2021, and melting ice sheets pushed sea levels to new heights. Also, the ocean warmed significantly faster in the last 20 years. This is bad new for human.