{"id":196184,"date":"2025-04-16T23:18:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-global-climate-crisis-escalates-to-alarming-new-levels\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T23:18:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:18:41","slug":"lesotho-global-climate-crisis-escalates-to-alarming-new-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-global-climate-crisis-escalates-to-alarming-new-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Global Climate Crisis Escalates to Alarming New Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has reported that 2024 was the warmest year on record globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Temperatures surpassed the critical 1.5\u00b0C threshold above pre-industrial levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">This alarming milestone marks a significant escalation of the global climate crisis, as human-induced climate change continues to drive irreversible environmental impacts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The WMO&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Global Climate&#8221; report reveals that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are at their highest levels in 800,000&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504160038.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has reported that 2024 was the warmest year on record globally. Temperatures surpassed the critical 1.5\u00b0C threshold above pre-industrial levels. This alarming milestone marks a significant escalation of the global climate crisis, as human-induced climate change continues to drive irreversible environmental impacts. The WMO&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Global Climate&#8221; report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":196185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,19323,6239,3723,8580,6212,4717,1407,8029,257,254],"class_list":["post-196184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alarming","tag-climate","tag-crisis","tag-escalates","tag-global","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-levels","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}