{"id":11906,"date":"2015-11-02T16:39:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T16:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=11906"},"modified":"2018-04-22T12:03:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:03:36","slug":"wmo-launches-climate-change-videos-in-advance-of-paris-climate-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2015\/11\/wmo-launches-climate-change-videos-in-advance-of-paris-climate-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"WMO launches climate change videos in advance of Paris climate conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If humanity\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, the average temperature of the Earth\u2019s lower atmosphere could rise by more than 4\u00b0C (7.2\u00b0F) by the end of the 21st century. But what does a global average temperature rise really mean? How would we experience it on a daily basis? How would it affect our homes and the places we cherish?<\/p>\n<p>To find out what could lie in store, and to promote awareness of the UN climate change conference in Paris, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) invited television weather presenters from around the world to imagine a \u201cweather report from the year 2050\u201d or to produce a report on how climate change will impact well-known UNESCO World Heritage Sites. What they created are only possible scenarios, of course, and not true forecasts. Nevertheless, they are based on the most up-to-date climate science, and they paint a compelling picture of what life could be like on a warmer planet.<\/p>\n<p>These videos were produced in a variety of languages, and many feature subtitles in English, French or Spanish. They conclude with brief statements by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other UN leaders, and they join 27 earlier contributions prepared in 2014 for the UN Climate Summit and the Lima climate conference (COP-20) and in 2015 for the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Sendai, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The videos are being posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/20nUIgM\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/20nUIgM<\/a>\u00a0according to the schedule below:<\/p>\n<p>Mon 2nd \u2013 Weather Channel, USA (the Arctic)<br \/>\nTues 3rd \u2013 Chacra TV, Argentina<br \/>\nWed 4th \u2013 Nova TV, Bulgaria<br \/>\nThu 5th \u2013 Uganda National Meteorological Authority (UNMA)<br \/>\nFri 6th \u2013 Sky News Arabia, United Arab Emirates<br \/>\nMon 9th \u2013 Kenya Meteorological Department\/Kenya Broadcasting Service<br \/>\nTue 10th \u2013 Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)<br \/>\nWed 11th \u2013 Nippon Television Network (NTV), Japan<br \/>\nThu 12th \u2013 MeteoTB, Russian Federation<br \/>\nFri 13th \u2013 ABC10, USA<br \/>\nMon 16th \u2013 Swiss Radio and Television (SRF)<br \/>\nTue 17th \u2013 Dep. of Climate Change and Meteorological Services\/Zanyengo, Malawi<br \/>\nWed 18th \u2013 Univision Radio, Puerto Rico, USA<br \/>\nThu 19th \u2013 Vietnam Television (VTV)<br \/>\nFri 20th \u2013 The Weather Network, Canada<br \/>\nSat 21th \u2013 Radio Television Ireland (RTE)<br \/>\nMon 23th \u2013 MetService, New Zealand<br \/>\nTue 24th \u2013 Channel 5, Belize<br \/>\nWed 25th \u2013 Royal Thai Army Radio and Television Station, Thailand<br \/>\nThu 26th \u2013 \u010cesk\u00e1 Televize, Czech Republic<br \/>\nFri 27th \u2013 Radio-Canada<br \/>\nSat 28th \u2013 Meteorological Society of Italy (SMI)<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact Michael Williams at +41 22 730 8315, +41 79 406 4730 (cell) or mwilliams(at)wmo.int. Twitter hashtags: #Weather2050, #COP21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To promote awareness of the UN climate change conference in Paris, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) invited television weather presenters from around the world to imagine a \u201cweather report from the year 2050.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":11911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[144,4871,4876,4866],"class_list":["post-11906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change","category-news","tag-climate-change","tag-videos","tag-weather","tag-wmo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}