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World suffered unprecedented climate extremes in past decade: WMO
2013-07-03 13:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The world suffered unprecedented climate extremes in the decade to 2010, from heatwaves in Europe and droughts in Australia to floods in Pakistan, against a backdrop of global warming, a United Nations report said on Wednesday. Every year of the decade except 2008 was among the 10 warmest since records began in the 1850s, with 2010 the hottest, according to the study by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The number of daily heat records far outstripped lows. It said many extremes...
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Climate extremes are 'unprecedented'
2013-07-03 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The Earth experienced unprecedented recorded climate extremes during the decade 2001-2010, according to the World Meteorological Organisation. Its new report says more national temperature records were reported broken than in previous decades. There was an increase in deaths from heatwaves over that decade. This was particularly pronounced during the extreme summers in Europe in 2003 and in the Russian Federation during 2010. But despite the decade being the second wettest since 1901...
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World Suffered Unprecedented Climate Extremes in Past Decade: WMO
2013-07-03 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The world suffered unprecedented climate extremes in the decade to 2010, from heatwaves in Europe and droughts in Australia to floods in Pakistan, against a backdrop of global warming, a United Nations report said on Wednesday. Every year of the decade except 2008 was among the 10 warmest since records began in the 1850s, with 2010 the hottest, according to the study by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The number of daily heat records far outstripped lows. It said many extremes...
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Climate change will bring greater extremes in weather
2013-03-25 09:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Climate change will bring greater extremes in weather, the Government's outgoing chief scientific adviser has warned as he called for urgent action to tackle global warming. Professor Sir John Beddington said the effects of climate change on the weather were already being felt in the UK. "In a sense we have moved from the idea of global warming to the idea of climate change, and that is rather important - yes, indeed, temperatures are increasing but the thing that is going to happen is that...
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'Ice loss, weather extremes show climate risk'
2013-02-19 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The record shrinkage of Arctic sea ice last year and a spell of catastrophic droughts, floods and storms highlight the risk of climate change, the UN Environment Programme said yesterday. In an annual review of the world's environment, that coincided with ministerial-level talks in Nairobi, the UN group also warned of an alarming surge in elephant and rhino poaching. In 2012, summer sea ice in the Arctic covered a record low of 3.4million square kilometres, which was 18% below the previous...
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