Global warming may ’stop’, scientists predict
Posted on 30 April 2008 by Jack
Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate, scientists have said.
Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a “lull” for up to a decade while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
The average temperature of the sea around Europe and North America is expected to cool slightly over the decade while the tropical Pacific remains unchanged.
This would mean that the 0.3°C global average temperature rise which has been predicted for the next decade by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may not happen, according to the paper published in the scientific journal Nature.
However, the effect of rising fossil fuel emissions will mean that warming will accelerate again after 2015 when natural trends in the oceans veer back towards warming, according to the computer model.
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April 30th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Oh, so this is how they are going to keep the global warming hysteria going even as temperatures stay the same or even cool off. It’s only temporary folks, we are blessed with additional time to set the world right, let’s not waste our good fortune. Full speed ahead with carbon taxes and all the rest of the Gore/Suuki B.S. When 2015 arrives and nothing has happened, heck just tack on anther 5 yrs to the climate armageddon date. Clever, very clever.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:15 am
What a crock. If these charlatans knew so much about the climate of the earth, they should have already known this was going to take place. As if anyone needed more evidence that man-caused global warming is the biggest scam in human history….or at least at par with the biggest scam in human history, that being communism.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:19 am
John Luft……I think the Y2K scare ranks up there with the biggest scams.