* Extreme weather shows need for urgent action, officials
say
Protocol
By Alister Doyle
DOHA, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Extreme weather from melting Arctic
ice to Superstorm Sandy shows snail-paced U.N. climate talks
have to do more to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the head of the
U.N. weather agency and its climate chief said on Wednesday.
"Climate change is taking place before our eyes," Michel
Jarraud, the head of the U.N.'s weather agency, said of the
shrinking of ice floating on the Arctic Ocean to a record low in
September and other extremes.
And the first 10 months of 2012 were the ninth-warmest since
records began in the mid-19th century, with early months cooled
by a "La Nina" weather event in the Pacific, according to a
report by Jarraud's World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
It also documented severe floods, droughts and heatwaves, in
what the U.N. expected to add to pressure for action at the Nov.http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-climate-talks2012-update-1l5e8msem1-20121128,0,337896.story
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