GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations says weather disasters costing $200 million a day and irreversible climate catastrophe looming show the world is “heading in the wrong direction.” In a new report that pulls together the latest science on climate change, the World Meteorological Organization said weather-related disasters have increased fivefold over the last 50 years and are killing 115 per day on average. U.N. chief Antonio Guterres cited the floods in Pakistan, heat waves in Europe, droughts in places such as China, the Horn of Africa, and the United States, and called for an end to fossil fuel use. The report comes amid fresh warnings from scientists last week that four climate “tipping points” will likely be triggered if global temperature rise hits passes 1.5 degrees Celsius.
UN sums up climate science: world heading in wrong direction
