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GENEVA / WMO GLOBAL WARMING
STORY: GENEVA / WMO
TRT: 01:41
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 JANUARY 2018, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
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18 JANUARY 2018, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Omar Baddour, Senior Scientist, World Meteorological Organisation (WMO):
“The temperature levels have reached now 1.1 degrees centigrade above the pre-industrial level and 2016 which was the warmest year and which was influenced by El Nino was 1.2 degrees centigrade above the pre-industrial level. So, if we take out the influence of El Nino and you compare 2017 with similar years with no influence of El Nino, 2017 is the warmest non-El Nino year. So, this demonstrates that the past few years the global warming has continued despite it was boosted by El Nino in one year. But the long-term trend is still upward.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Omar Baddour, Senior Scientist, World Meteorological Organisation (WMO):
“In addition to the global temperature there have been several events that happened during 2017, namely the very busy hurricane season in the Atlantic which caused a huge impact in US, Caribbean, and also many cases of forest fires in Europe, as well as in South America, United States, and Canada which have caused even some casualties.”
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Omar Baddour, Senior Scientist, World Meteorological Organisation (WMO):
“The sea ice extent, on average the whole 2017 year average, if you take mostly month by month, sea ice extent and the average of the year, 2017 has seen the second lowest extent on record.”
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The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) today (18 Jan) confirmed 2017 is among the three warmest years on record. 2016 still holds the global record, whilst 2017 was the warmest year without El Nino, which can boost global annual temperatures.
WMO Senior Scientist Omar Baddour said the temperature levels reached 1.1 degrees centigrade above the pre-industrial level in 2017, while 2016 was 1.2 degrees centigrade above the pre-industrial level.
Baddour added that the numbers demonstrate that in the past few years “global warming has continued” and the long-term temperature trend is “still upward.”
According to WMO, the long-term temperature trend is far more important than the ranking of individual years. Seventeen of the 18 warmest years on record have all been during this century, and the degree of warming during the past three years has been exceptional.
Temperatures tell only a small part of the story, the warmth in 2017 was accompanied by extreme weather in many countries around the world.
SOUNDBITE (English) Omar Baddour, Senior Scientist, World Meteorological Organisation (WMO):
“In addition to the global temperature there have been several events that happened during 2017, namely the very busy hurricane season in the Atlantic which caused a huge impact in US, Caribbean, and also many cases of forest fires in Europe, as well as in South America, United States, and Canada which have caused even some casualties.”
WMO said that the United States of America had its most expensive year in terms of weather and climate disaster, whilst other countries saw their development slowed or reversed by tropical cyclones, floods and drought. Baddour added that the average sea ice extent in 2017 was also “the second lowest extent on record”
WMO will release a full statement on the state of the climate in 2017 this March with more details on extreme weather events and high impact caused by these extreme events.
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