UN agency cites worrying warming trend

The United Nations agency is weather reporting that glaciers shrank more than ever from 2011 and 2020 and the Antarctic ice sheet lost 75% more compared to the previous 10 years, as it released its latest stark report about the fallout on the planet from climate change.

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The World Meteorological Organization served up more evidence of what scientists already know the earth is heating on Tuesday, but this time looking at the trend over a longer period with its latest Decadal State of the Climate report.

"Each decade since the 1990s has been warmer than the previous one and we see no immediate sign of this trend reversing," its secretary-general Petteri Taalas said. "We are losing the race to save our melting glaciers and ice sheets."

Warming oceans and melting ice sheets caused the rate of sea-level rise to nearly double in less than a generation, he said, and WMO says that bodes ill for low-lying coastal regions and countries.

Experts are divided about one of the most important metrics: the rate of warming.