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Eugene

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Thu Mar 28, 2019, 10:55 PM Mar 2019

Climate change: Global impacts 'accelerating' - WMO

Source: BBC

Climate change: Global impacts 'accelerating' - WMO

28 March 2019

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says that the physical and financial impacts of global warming are accelerating.

Record greenhouse gas levels are driving temperatures to "increasingly dangerous levels", it says.

Their report comes in the same week as the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported a surge in CO2 in 2018.

However, new data from the UK suggests Britain is bucking the trend with emissions down by 3%.

This year's State of the Climate report from the WMO is the 25th annual record of the climate.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47723577

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Related: WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2018 (World Meteorological Organization)

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