- Report: State of the Global Climate 2022 by World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Observations
- sustained drought like conditions in East Africa
- ocean warming
- changes in land water storage
- Earth’s ice cover ==(cryosphere) has thinned==
- sea ice
- Arctic
- Antarctic
- glaciers
- ice sheets of Greenland
- sea ice
Potential Consequences
- changes in land cover
- coastal communities
- cyclones
- sea water can seep into the ground
- groundwater, is freshwater, can turn saline.