The new head of the World Meteorological Organization said that it seems to her that the pace  climate change caused by human activity is accelerating and that warming has triggered more arctic cold outbreaks in North America and Europe, two issues that divide climate scientists. In her first sit-down interview since taking office last month, WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo told The Associated Press that while her agency said last year was 1.48 degrees Celsius (2.66 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, the world it must "continue with the ambition of trying not to reach 1.5" degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in the longer term, not just one year. "We have a trend that is really worrying. The trend is very clear." (Seth Borenstein, more at washingtonpost.com )