UN meteoroligists see faster rate of sea level rise

The United Nations' weather agency said that sea level rise in the past decade was double what it was in the 1990s and since January 2020 has jumped at a higher rate than that.

Since the decade began, seas are rising at 5 millimeters a year compared to 2.1 millimeters in the 1990s. Petteri Taalas, World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General said "Unfortunately, we have already lost this melting of glaciers game, which means that the sea level rise is supposed to continue for the coming hundreds of years or even thousands of years.”

“And there's a record since 2000 from the Swiss glaciers and we have never seen such strong melting of annual glacier, of more than six percent drop of the glacier mass."

The report highlights the summer's incredible flood in Pakistan that killed more than 1,700 people and displaced 7.9 million, a crippling four-year drought in East Africa that has more than 18 million hungry, the Yangtze River drying to its lowest level in August, and record heat-waves broiling people in Europe and China.