Via Alister Doyle and Michael Szabo WARSAW (Reuters) – This year is the seventh warmest on account that information commenced in 1850 with a development to climate extremes and the impact of storms reminiscent of Hurricane Haiyan in the Philippines aggravated by way of rising sea levels, the World Meteorological Group (WMO) mentioned on Wednesday. A build-up of artifical greenhouse gases within the environment supposed a hotter future was once now inevitable, WMO Secretary-Normal Michel Jarraud said in a statement on the sidelines of U.N. local weather talks among almost 200 nations in Warsaw. The WMO, giving a provisional overview, said the first 9 months of the year tied with the identical period of 2003 as seventh warmest, with moderate global land and ocean surface temperatures 0.48°C (zero.86°F) above the 1961-1990 average. “This yr as soon as again continues the underlying, long-time period trend,” against higher temperatures caused by world warming, Jarraud stated.