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					 <title>First Conference of Ministers Responsible for Meteorology in Africa (12-16 April, 2010)</title>
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					 <description><![CDATA[At a press conference in Geneva on 16 March, Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of WMO, announced that African Ministers responsible for meteorology will meet in Nairobi, Kenya, to explore the best ways to strengthen weather, climate and water information for decision-making to help achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals. ]]></description>
					 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:52:14 +0100</pubDate>
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					 <title>More rigorous procedures will strengthen science consensus</title>
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					 <description><![CDATA[WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said the request for an independent review of the IPCC processes and procedures met with the full support of the WMO. ]]></description>
					 <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:31:29 +0100</pubDate>
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					 <title>WCRP: ‘Open Science Conference’ to better predict Earth’s Climate</title>
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					 <description><![CDATA[he World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), jointly co-sponsored by WMO, the International Council for Science and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, will host an international Open Science Conference from 24-28 October 2011, in Denver, Colorado, USA. ]]></description>
					 <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:30:56 +0100</pubDate>
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					 <title>Impacts of climate change on tropical cyclones</title>
					 <link>http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/news/index_en.html#tc</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[If twenty-first century warming occurs as projected, the maximum wind speed of tropical cyclones will likely, on average worldwide, increase 2 to 11 per cent, while rainfall rates will  increase approximately 20 per cent within 100 kilometres of a storm centre, according to the WMO Expert Team on Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Cyclones. ]]></description>
					 <pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:07:29 +0100</pubDate>
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					 <title>Rapid climate change in the Arctic</title>
					 <link>http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/news/index_en.html#arctic</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Climate change is accelerating the disappearance of sea ice in the Arctic, according to early findings of a large-scale study that is part of the International Polar Year (IPY), a project organized by WMO and the International Council for Science.  ]]></description>
					 <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:06:43 +0100</pubDate>
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					 <title>Preparing for the rainy and hurricane seasons in Haiti</title>
					 <link>http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/news/index_en.html#haiti2</link>
					 <description><![CDATA[Operational meteorological services are essential to preventing further disasters in Haiti.  WMO Members have been providing weather information for Haiti since domestic meteorological facilities were rendered unusable by the recent earthquake.  ]]></description>
					 <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:05:53 +0100</pubDate>
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					 <title>Tropical cyclone Oli in South Pacific</title>
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					 <description><![CDATA[Tropical cyclone Oli developed at 06:00 UTC today in the South Pacific, about 350 kilometers west of Tahiti, French Polynesia. Oli is moving south-east at 15 kilometres per hour. It is currently equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane. ]]></description>
					 <pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:22:01 +0100</pubDate>
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					 <title>New world record wind gust</title>
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					 <description><![CDATA[According to a recent review and evaluation conducted by a panel of experts in charge of global weather and climate extremes within the WMO Commission for Climatology (CCl), the new record wind gust, not related to tornados, registered to date is 408 kilometres per hour.  ]]></description>
					 <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:43:43 +0100</pubDate>
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