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Wrapping Up With The WMO
Wed Aug 18, 2004
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Wrapping Up With The WMO, next on The Weather Notebook.
Hi, I’m Bryan Yeaton for The Weather Notebook. Today, we finish up our talk with the head of the World Meteorological Organization, Michel Jarraud. And we start by talking about education.
JARRAUD: I think we are getting nowhere without educating the people. But education, as you said, should cover all range. We’re talking educating scientists. We are talking educating the young people. We are talking educating the public how to use information and I think I would like to think about educating also the people who will have to make decisions – the decision makers – how best to use the information provided to them.
BRYAN: I’d be remiss if I didn’t talk about climate change here. How would you respond to folks like – maybe even those in the Bush Administration who deny some aspects of climate change or they refuse to take action?
JARRAUD: If we can talk about climate change right now it’s because of all the observations we have accumulated under the auspices of WMO and also the predecessors of ?Inshop W. Moore? - the Intra - Mitral Observation so it goes back more than 130 – 140 years and we have these records which show the evolution of the temperature. MET service is world-wide. Globally, the temperature is increase something like 0.6 degrees over the last 100 years, with significant regionally, uh, differences. We know how much the sea level has, uh, risen also over the same period so we support that conclusion. WMO doesn’t go into, uh, doesn’t go into, uh, political measures - how to address that? But we are providing the scientific information so that decisions can be made.
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