Direct consequences of cumulative post-industrial emissions include increasing global temperature, perturbed regional weather patterns, rising sea levels, acidifying oceans, changed nutrient loads and altered ocean circulation.
In spite of an overall trend toward increasing global temperatures, climate models forecast more variable weather.
"Apart from increasing global temperatures, the statement points to many, many examples of extreme weather from the UK to Russia, and from the Sudan to Argentina.
Yet, even if we managed to stop increasing global carbon emissions tomorrow, we would probably experience several centuries of additional warming, rising sea levels, and more frequent dangerous weather events.
This rise coincided with increasing global temperatures.
Research suggests that increasing global mean temperatures will do little to reduce morbidity and mortality in winter [ 4, 6, 50, 51], likely due to increases in temperature variability and weather extremes.
According to WMO, provisional data also indicates that there has been no easing in the rate of increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide despite the fading of 2016's strong El Niño conditions, a phenomenon in the Pacific that increases global temperatures and affects weather patterns.
Mace said the time to act to increase global resilience to extreme weather was now, as major international efforts to tackle climate change, disaster reduction and sustainable development all have deadlines in 2015.
"In America, the past decade has been our hottest on record," said Obama, who also announced the launch of new scientific and technological tools to increase global climate resilience and extend extreme weather risk outlooks.
And, hence, to increase global warming.
