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  • Cyprus adds its voice to the COP21 call for action against climate change

    CYPRUS, 2015/12/02 By presently with its own plans for a greener economic next, Cyprus has high hopes for an ambitious, binding agreement at COP21 that will force all nations to change to a greener path. It’s been a tough 2015 for climate change naysayers trying to cast doubt on the causes and implications of rising world temperatures. Numerous studies have dispelled some of their favorite myths, inclunding the widely touted “iatus” in world warming idea being quashed by at least six individual studies. Plus, on November 25, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced this year is set to be the warmest on record, with 2016 even hotter, and warned that a lack of international action presently could see temperatures increase by a catastrophic 6ºC or additional. Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the WMO, said: "2015 will make history for a number of reasons. One of them, I'm repeating what we said just a few weeks ago, is that we have broken new records for the concentration of greenhouse gases as you know. CO2, methane, nitrous oxide and a few others, we have broken, once again, absolute records of that. The other reason is that 2015 will be the warmest year on record."