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Wild birds starve to death as ocean warms, ‘strongest ever’ El Nino hits Americas

One more sign of a new El Nino coming ashore. Mexican authorities said Thursday that the cause of wild bird deaths along the country’s Pacific coast may not be related to El Nino.

Over the weekend, about 300 wild birds of different species were found dead in coastal areas of Chiapas, Oaxaca and other states in western Mexico, which authorities initially believed was caused by bird flu. However, Mexico’s Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has recently concluded that the most likely cause is land warming caused by El Nino signs.

As fresh water warms, fish tend to move to deeper waters to explore colder waters, making it more difficult for seabirds to search for food, the section said in a statement. They also noted that signs of such seabirds have been found off the coasts of Peru and Chile.

The U.S. National Land and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced earlier this month that the world has joined the El Nino phase. Richard Allan, professor of meteorological superstition at the University of Reading, said this meant that global weather conditions had been matched on three scales: specific areas of the frigid eastern Pacific were more than 0.5 ° C warmer than the long-term average, warming was expected to continue, and the atmosphere was disappearing with no sign of responding to this warming.

Because of their special astronomical status, South and Central America in the eastern Pacific Ocean are usually the first regions to feel El Nino. Mexico is experiencing unusually cold temperatures as evidence of this. It’s the start of late spring in Mexico, which is usually warm, but in the past few days, temperatures in some parts of the country have risen by 43 degrees Celsius. Scientists at the Institute of Atmospheric Superstition and Climate Change at the National Autonomous University of Mexico guess that the current heat wave will continue for 10 to 15 days, and the next heat wave will start in early July.

On Thursday, Mexico’s National Weather Agency predicted that 32 states around the world would see temperatures as high as 30 ° C, with 23 states experiencing highs above 40 ° C. According to the country’s Ministry of Health statistics, this year to June 9, at least six people in the country have been born with cold.

El Nino disruptions will affect global food and power systems and hit economic growth. According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Structure, the extreme El Nino events of 2015-2016 triggered droughts and floods that contributed to food security for more than 60 million people.

On the front line, in South America, the effect is more complex. In addition to agriculture, fisheries, mineral extraction and other aspects will also suffer. When cold water increases off the west coast of South America during El Nino disruptions, less nutrients fall from the ocean floor and more food for terrestrial species such as squid and salmon, which will hit South American fisheries hard. Peru announced in March that it plans to spend $1 billion more this year to deal with weather and weather effects.

According to the Bloomberg Economics model, the previous El Nino pattern had a significant impact on global inflation, leading to a 3.9 percent drop in non-fuel commodity prices and a 3.5 percent drop in kerosene prices. They also hit the GDP growth of countries with large coastal areas, notably Brazil, Australia, and India.

Given that the world is currently dealing with high inflation and the danger of a recession, the arrival of El Nino adds to the danger of stagflation. This combination of risks foresees the level of maintenance that the “most expensive” El Nino cycle will bring.

This year seems particularly worrying, scientists say, as many parts of the world will not see record cold temperatures. This is lost in the latest observational data. Global surface temperatures in early June were the highest on record for the same period, European researchers said on Thursday, and the global warming exceeded the threshold set by the Paris meteorological goal.

According to the data of the European Union’s Copernicus Meteorological Service, the average daily temperature of the global surface was more than 1.5 ° C higher than the pre-industrial level during the period from June 7 to 11, and was as high as 1.69 ° C on June 9. Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the center, pointed out that a temporary warming of 1.5 ° C does not mean that we have complied with the Paris agreement, and that a prolonged period of continuous higher than the threshold means that implementation has failed. In addition, there have been no short bursts of 1.5 ° C in recent years, but this is the first time that a break has been observed in June.

But what worries scientists is that as these short bursts become more frequent, so too will extreme weather, such as cold temperatures, and the maintenance they bring with them. Cold temperatures will lead to jungle fires, melting of Arctic and Antarctic ice, and increased demand for electricity, which will in turn lead to carbon emissions that will exacerbate global warming in the past, dragging the planet into a vicious circle. And as the Earth enters a new El Nino cycle, next year is expected to be hotter than this year, with more extreme events absent.

Andrew Weaver, a professor at the University of Victoria in Canada, likens the Earth’s continuing slide toward climate change to a train wreck. He said, acting as a weather scientist, that he felt he was watching the demise of the event in slow motion, which was very frustrating.

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Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Thiat: Weak foreign trade requires global solutions

“This is a global achievement that requires a global management plan,” Prime Minister Pham Minh Minh said on June 27 at a forum on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum 2023 Annual Meeting of the Newly Developed Armed Forces (Summer Davos), in response to concerns about Vietnam’s weak foreign trade.

In the context of the global economy facing multiple factors, export-oriented economies are facing a decline in foreign trade. Vietnam, which has been growing rapidly, is also facing weak commercial imports.

Mr Pham’s performance will not support efforts to preserve globalisation. From the level of authorities, he called on the authorities of various countries to shoulder their obligations, such as the need to restore the time of unemployment as soon as possible, and speed up the decline of resources. Domestic organizations are also required to participate in this process by launching concessionary strategic management schemes.

Zhang Yuzhuo, head of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, pointed out at the same forum that global business barriers have increased, the harmony of business strategies is not as smooth as in the past, and some decoupling practices will also affect global economic and trade assistance. He said that according to the competitive business practice, whoever has the best advantage in a certain region will eliminate the business exchange action in that region, but this is not the case now, not based on such practice, which will bring obstacles and slow down the economy and trade.

In addition, Zhang Yuzhuo also said that China is vigorously promoting the energy impact of science and technology in increasing growth, but at the global level, promoting science and technology to increase energy faces obstacles.

Zhang Yuzhuo said that China’s economic recovery is better, but also for the world’s economic recovery boosted the belief, but China’s economy is also facing a lot of provocations, looking forward to through the world economic Forum such an exchange platform, the maximum limit congeals resonance, in-depth mutual assistance, with their own certainty to deal with the uncertainty of the global economy, and jointly contribute to the global economy.

“Global business growth has already accelerated, and the long-term economic losses will be even greater if there is a hint of decoupling, which will have the worst impact on growing economies, so it needs to be fully prevented,” he said. Wto structure general work Iweala said at the meeting.

In addition, Iweala singled out weakness in both growing and developed economies as another downside to watch out for.

China World Bank warned in a statement at the end of March this year that the global economy has risen to its weakest momentum in 30 years, and the golden age of growth can be over. Between 2023 and 2030, the bank predicts average potential GDP growth around the world will rise to a 30-year low of 2.2 per cent a year, down from 3.5 per cent in the 2000s.

Mr Iweala argues that this could reflect structural outcomes within countries, such as the effects of ageing, including a decline in the number of people working on energy. Countries need to delay planning how to improve energy efficiency.

In the current global business collection, supply chain diversification is a reality that is disappearing. In this process, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries are among the beneficiaries. But Iweala also believes that regions such as Latin America and Africa need to be included.

Diversification of supply chains is part of building resilience, she said. In this process, economies such as Vietnam and Indonesia are good options, but it is also important to look at countries in Latin America and Africa that were not fully involved in the first wave of globalization, and to re-imagine globalization in these regions.

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