NEW UN REPORT CITES 'UNPRECEDENTED CLIMATE EXTREMES' OVER PAST DECADE

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NEW UN REPORT CITES 'UNPRECEDENTED CLIMATE EXTREMES' OVER PAST DECADE
New York, Jul 3 2013 10:00AM
The world experienced "unprecedented high-impact climate extremes"
between 2001 and 2010 and more national temperature records were
broken during that period than in any other decade, according to a
United Nations <"
http://library.wmo.int/pmb_ged/wmo_1119_en.pdf">report launched today.

The report, The Global Climate 2001-2010, A Decade of Extremes, says
the first decade of the 21st century was the warmest for both
hemispheres and for both land and ocean temperatures since
measurements began in 1850. High temperatures were accompanied by a
rapid decline in Arctic sea ice, and an accelerating loss of the ice
sheets of the world's glaciers.

"Rising concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are changing
our climate, with far reaching implications for our environment and
our oceans, which are absorbing both carbon dioxide and heat," said
Michel Jarraud, the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO), which produced the report.

Extreme Floods, droughts and tropical cyclones were all experienced
across the world throughout the decade, and more than 370,000 people
died as a result of these, representing a 20 per cent increase in
casualties from the previous decade.

Floods were the most frequently experienced extreme events over the
course of the decade. Eastern Europe, India, Africa, and Australia
were particularly affected, as well as Pakistan, where 2,000 people
died and 20 million were affected by floods in 2010.

Droughts however, affected more people than any other kind of natural
disaster due to their large scale and long-lasting nature. Some of the
highest-impact and long-term droughts struck Australia, East Africa,
and the Amazon Basin, with negative environmental impacts.

Tropical cyclones were also prominent throughout the decade, with more
than 500 cyclone-related disaster events killing nearly 170,000
people, affecting over 250 million, and caused estimated damages of
$380 billion.

The report incorporates findings from a survey of 139 national
meteorological and hydrological services and socio-economic data and
analysis from several UN agencies and partners.

In addition to analyzing global and regional temperatures, it also
charted the rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases,
finding that global concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
rose by 39 per cent since the start of the industrial era in 1750,
nitrous oxide concentrations rose by 20 per cent and methane
concentrations more than tripled.

The release of the report coincides with the first session of the
Intergovernmental Board on Climate Services, which oversees the
implementation of the Global Framework for Climate Services -- an
international initiative to improve and expand scientifically-based
climate information to help society cope with the climate and human
induced climate change.

The session, which opened yesterday in Geneva and will run through
Friday, 5 July, will focus on how to provide operational climate
services to help countries and communities cope with long-term climate
change and associated extreme weather events.

"We are already seeing the effects of climate change and so we need to
take action through the use of scientifically-based climate services
to cushion the impact on our environment, our economies and our
societies," said Mr. Jarraud.

"Decisions on flood defences and dams, for instance, are often based
on past experience and not on the likely future. But the past climate
is no longer a sufficient guide to the future. We need to anticipate
the climate we shall have in the next 50 to 100 years," he said. "It's
a huge challenge but it's not a hopeless challenge if we all work
together."
Jul 3 2013 10:00AM
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