New records set for rising seas and heating oceans in 2021, UN report shows

It is “just a matter of time” before the world sees another warmest year on record, outstripping 2016, WMO secretary-general Petteri Taalas warned.

"Alarming new records" for sea levels, ocean heat and concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere were set in 2021, experts said.

“Alarming new records” for sea levels, ocean heat and concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere were set in 2021, experts said.

The annual “state of the global climate report” from the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) also said the oceans were becoming ever more acidic as carbon dioxide dissolved into sea water, threatening wildlife.