January and February 2016 smashed temperature records, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Monday as it warned climate change was advancing at an "unprecedented" rate. Temperatures in the first two months of 2016 soared to new highs, following a year that broke "all previous records by a wide margin," the UN's weather agency said. The WMO pointed to record 2015 land and sea surface temperatures, unabated sea-level rise, shrinking sea ice and extreme weather events around the world. "The alarming rate of change we are now witnessing in our climate as a result of greenhouse gas emissions is unprecedented in modern records," the WMO's new chief, Petteri Taalas, said in a statement.
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