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What comes after the announcement of climate collapse?
2023-09-10
Commenting on the recorded data, the Secretary-General of the United Nations Guterres announced that the summer of 2023 (June, July, and August) is the hottest in history, as he announced that ((climate collapse began at a faster pace than our ability to cope)), this came in a statement issued by Guterres, on Wednesday (September 6, 2023) after the European Copernicus Observatory announced that the summer season witnessed the highest average global temperatures ever measured, likely that 2023 will be the hottest year in history. .
The Copernicus database dates back to 1940, but can be compared to climates of the past millennia and was found using tree rings or ice samples and compiled in the latest report by the UN Climate Expert Panel.
For his part, the director of the Copernicus Center for Climate Change, Carlo Pontempo, said that 2023 was the second hottest year on record, according to data from the past 8 months.
He added that record levels and their effects on humans and the planet clearly indicate "warming the climate system".
The above lines illustrate the importance of measurements and meteorology in addition to modern techniques in the subject of monitoring and studying climate change and monitoring and identifying everyone related to the subject of climatic phenomena, especially in a country like Iraq. Global reports and climate experts confirm that the Middle East region is the most affected by climate change and Iraq is among the five countries most affected by the effects of these changes.
Sensing these challenges with Iraq being exposed to severe waves of drought with frequent dust storms and a decrease in rainfall rates with high temperatures, several research teams were formed at the Upper Euphrates Basin Developing Centre – University of Anbar, and the center turned into something like an operations room to monitor climate change through meteorology and data collection. In addition to the use of modern technologies, remote sensing, satellite image analysis, the use of global indicators to determine the extent of these climate changes, and access to global meteorological networks to obtain predictions of the values of weather factors affecting temperature and rainfall, where data was obtained for temperature and rain changes starting from 1904.
On the other hand, the center extends its thanks and appreciation to the presidency of the University of Anbar for its great support for the center's directions in this field and considering it a strategic priority for the university's plans and equipping the center with a new meteorological station, so that the operating stations become three stations, one of which is in a modern city, in addition to equipping the center with a device to measure emissions in addition to a research station to treat evaporation from water bodies using artificial intelligence and renewable energy in cooperation with the Renewable Energy Research Center at the university.
The centre had previously proposed a project to develop a model to predict the direction and movement of dust storms, where it needs funding, and the proposal was submitted to the Ministry of Environment, but we did not get a response, and currently, with the support of the presidency of the University of Anbar, the center is working to establish a system to monitor meteorology and climate change.
The center works through its joint research teams with research centers at the university and civil society organizations registered in the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers on several research projects to study climate change indicators in Anbar province, and decision-makers in the province, researchers, specialists and graduate students must play their role in cooperation in the field of intensifying studies and research, the most important of which is the development of monitoring and measurement systems for climate change and the development of ideas towards reducing or reducing the effects of these changes. The Upper Euphrates Basin Developing Centre at University of Anbar is open to all researchers and academic and research institutions to achieve this goal before it is too late.
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