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STORY: GENEVA / WMO CLIMATE REPORT
TRT: 1:36
SOURCE: UNTV CH
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 MARCH 2017 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Exterior, Palais des Nations
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Clare Nullis, Spokesperson, World Meteorological Organisation (WMO):
“These extreme conditions are continuing in the early months of this year. We don’t have an El Nino event which did contribute to the high temperatures last year, but we are still seeing very very warm temperatures, a lot of extreme events and very very low sea ice in both the arctic and more unusually in the Antarctic.”
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Clare Nullis, Spokesperson, World Meteorological Organisation (WMO):
“One of the extreme events that we are seeing is the very very heavy rainfall in Peru which has caused a lot of casualties, a great level of damage. There have been media reports that this is because of El Nino, these are slightly inaccurate. We are not yet in a phase where we have an El Nino at global level. We will issue an update in the coming weeks, because more and more models are saying but it could well develop later on this year.”
6. Close up, journalist
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Clare Nullis, Spokesperson, World Meteorological Organisation (WMO):
“The projections at the moment are that 2017 will be one of the hottest, but probably not the hottest and that is if we don’t have a strong El Nino.”
8. Close up, journalist
9. Med shot, journalists
10. Wide shot, press briefing
A new World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report said 2016 was the warmest year ever documented, with record temperatures on land as well as exceptionally low ice levels at both poles, surging sea levels, and rising temperatures in the oceans.
According to the WMO’s report released today (21 Mar) in Geneva, these “extreme conditions” are continuing in the early months of this year.
WMO spokesperson Clare Nullis told reporters, "We don’t have an El Nino event which did contribute to the high temperatures last year, but we are still seeing very very warm temperatures, a lot of extreme events and very very low sea ice in both the Arctic and, more unusually, in the Antarctic.”
WMO’s assessment of the climate in 2016, released in advance of World Meteorological Day on Thursday 23 March, reports unprecedented heat across the globe.
Nullis said “one of the extreme events that we are seeing is the very very heavy rainfall in Peru which has caused a lot of casualties, a great level of damage”. She added “there have been media reports that this is because of El Nino, these are slightly inaccurate. We are not yet in a phase where we have an El Nino at global level. We will issue an update in the coming weeks, because more and more models are saying but it could well develop later on this year.”
The record-breaking heat that made 2016 the hottest year ever recorded has continued in 2017. Nullis said “the projections at the moment are that 2017 will be one of the hottest, but probably not the hottest and that is if we don’t have a strong El Nino.”
The report, WMO’s collaboration with other UN partners, will be presented to the United Nations at a meeting on climate change in New York this Thursday.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to keep the global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level.
