1 September 2014: The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has asked television weathermen and women from all over the world to prepare a daily weather report for the year 2050 depicting likely local impacts of global climate change. These videos are being launched in September, in support of the UN Secretary-General’s call for government, finance, business and civil society leaders, and other stakeholders to agree to ambitious action on climate change at the UN Climate Summit, convening on 23 September 2014, in New York, US.

WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said the weather reports are potential scenarios based on the most recent climate science, and that they “paint a compelling picture of what life could be like on a warmer planet” where “abnormal” risks could become the norm. UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres thanked the weathermen and women for volunteering their time in order to communicate to the world the “reality we are all facing by 2050 if climate change if left unaddressed.” By the end of the 21st century, average global temperature could rise by more than 4°C.

The weathermen and women, from Brazil, Japan, Denmark, Zambia, Burkina Faso, the US, Bulgaria, the Philippines, Belgium, South Africa, Iceland, Germany and Tanzania, will report on “dangerously hot temperatures, torrential but erratic rains, relentless drought and flooding from tropical cyclones aggravated by higher sea levels,” as well as the impacts of climate change on marine, plant life and ecosystems. [WMO Press Release and List of Videos] [Weather Reports from the Future]