Friday published World Meteorological Organization its annual climate report. The report paints a bleak picture of the future and says it is now too late to do anything about melting glaciers and rising sea levels.

The report says droughts, floods and heat waves have affected local communities on every continent in the world and caused billions of dollars in damage.

It also appears in the report that sea ice in Antarctica is at an all-time high and some European glaciers are melting the fastest on record.

Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases would also have reached an all-time high in 2022, while the years 2015 to 2022 would have been the hottest in recorded history.

The organization says record melting of glaciers and rising sea levels will continue for thousands of years.

– As greenhouse gas emissions rise and the climate changes, people around the world continue to suffer severely from extreme weather and climate events, says WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas, according to Iltalethi.

Taalas highlights extreme drought in East Africa, record rainfall in Pakistan, and record heat waves in China and Europe, among the climate challenges that have affected people in 2022.

According to him, the battle against melting glaciers and rising sea levels is lost.

On Twitter, the organization writes that Switzerland has lost 6% of the country’s glaciers in one year.

The WMO report comes just a day after the EU’s Copernicus climate service published its report on the state of the climate in Europe.

– We have the tools, the knowledge and the solutions, but the pace must be accelerated, said UN Secretary General António Guterres.