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WMO
- World Meteorological Organization.
WMO
abbreviation for
- World Meteorological Organization
Example Sentences
The WMO reports historically high levels of the greenhouse gasses methane and nitrous oxide, which like carbon dioxide are common byproducts of human industry.
But the WMO's scientists also says they have seen some evidence that as the world gets warmer, trees are not able to soak up the same level of CO2 as they once were.
"Every degree matters; every tenth of a degree matters," says Ko Barrett, WMO Deputy Secretary General.
Randall Cerveny, an Arizona State University scientist who helps coordinate record-keeping for the WMO, said the big worry isn’t that a record was broken last year, but that they keep getting broken so frequently.
According to the WMO, the extent of Antarctic sea ice hit a record absolute low in 2023, at least in terms of what scientists know since the satellite era began in 1979.
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