 When announcing the annual World Meteorological Organisation climate report in March 2014, the WMO secretary-general Michel Jarraud said that there had been no pause, with 2013 continuing a long-term warming trend showing "no standstill in global warming".2013 had been the sixth-warmest year on record, and 13 of the 14 warmest years on record had occurred since the start of 2000.He said that "The warming of our oceans has accelerated, and at lower depths.