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The United Nations' new weather chief said Friday his priority was to improve early warning systems to predict increasing natural disasters sparked by climate change, reports Agence France Presse.

Finn Petteri Taalas, the new head of the 191-nation Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization (WMO), also said these alert systems were not up to the mark in many countries. "It's evident that we have already seen... that weather-related disasters are growing," he told AFP. "We have to find more resources for improving global early warning and climate adaptation capacity," Taalas said. "We have to invest in the national meteorological and hydrological services, we have to enhance their service capabilities and how they deliver this information to the people and actors in the country."

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