{"id":155305,"date":"2023-01-12T22:23:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T04:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/stop-caving-to-fossil-fuel-industry-experts-say-as-2022-confirmed-among-hottest-years-on-record"},"modified":"2023-01-12T22:23:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T04:23:52","slug":"stop-caving-to-fossil-fuel-industry-experts-say-as-2022-confirmed-among-hottest-years-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/stop-caving-to-fossil-fuel-industry-experts-say-as-2022-confirmed-among-hottest-years-on-record","title":{"rendered":"Stop \u2018Caving to Fossil Fuel Industry,\u2019 Experts Say as 2022 Confirmed Among Hottest Years on Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stop-caving-to-fossil-fuel-industry-experts-say-as-2022-confirmed-among-hottest-years-on-record.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multiple agencies concurred this week that 2022 was among the hottest years on record\u2014a continuation of a dangerous trend that experts say underscores the need to move rapidly away from fossil fuels, the primary source of planet-heating pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The World Meteorological Organization <a href=\"https:\/\/public.wmo.int\/en\/media\/press-release\/past-eight-years-confirmed-be-eight-warmest-record\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> Thursday that last year was one of the hottest since record-keeping began. Citing its analysis of six international datasets, the WMO said that the average global temperature in 2022 was roughly 1.15\u00b0C above preindustrial (1850\u22121900) levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe persistence of a cooling La Ni\u00f1a event\u201d prevented 2022 from being even hotter, but \u201cthis cooling impact will be short-lived and will not reverse the long-term warming trend caused by record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in our atmosphere,\u201d said the United Nations weather agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple agencies concurred this week that 2022 was among the hottest years on record\u2014a continuation of a dangerous trend that experts say underscores the need to move rapidly away from fossil fuels, the primary source of planet-heating pollution. The World Meteorological Organization confirmed Thursday that last year was one of the hottest since record-keeping began. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}