No longer Warming, our Planet is “Boiling” says UN Sec-Gen

By Dana Malcolm 

Staff Writer 

July 31, 2023 – As the world struggles with the warmest temperatures ever recorded, the United Nations has a grim outlook for the future.

“The era of global warming has ended.  The era of global boiling has arrived,” Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General, said in a press conference on July 27^th, where he also acknowledged that the speed of the change is “terrifying.”

The UN leader was in receipt of a report from the World Meteorological Organization and Copernicus Climate Change Service, which officially confirmed the last three weeks were the hottest of all time.

“This anomaly is so large with respect to other record-breaking months in our record, that we are virtually certain that the month as a whole, will become the warmest July on record, the warmest month on record, in all likelihood,” Carlo Buentempo, Director of Copernicus Climate Change Service, told the UN via Zoom.

Ocean temperatures are pushing records as well.  Guterres described the consequences as clear and tragic.

“Children swept away by monsoon rains, families running from flames, workers collapsing in scorching heat, and for scientists it is unequivocal, humans are to blame,” he said.

Heat warnings, wildfires and vector-borne diseases have prompted alarm for various international agencies since the beginning of the month, all tied to the rising global temperatures.

Guterres is now calling on the people responsible for the change that is boiling everyone, especially Small Island Developing States, to do their part in combating the disaster.  He fingers the G20 nations, responsible for the vast majority of emissions, and says they must step up for climate justice.