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Wrapping Up With The WMO
Thu Aug 19, 2004
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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 ... 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 risen also over the same period so we support that conclusion. WMO doesn’t go
into political measures ... how to address that. But we are providing the scientific
information so that decisions can be made.
The Weather Notebook is a program of the Mount Washington Observatory, online at
www.mountwashington.org. We are generously funded by Subaru of America and the
National Science Foundation.
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