Posted on 04/04/2008 6:08:18 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Global warming 'dips this year'
By Roger Harrabin BBC News environment analyst
Global temperatures will drop slightly this year as a result of the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said.
The World Meteorological Organization's secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer.
This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory.
But experts say we are still clearly in a long-term warming trend - and they forecast a new record high temperature within five years.
The WMO points out that the decade from 1998 to 2007 was the warmest on record. Since the beginning of the 20th Century, the global average surface temperature has risen by 0.74C.
Rises 'stalled'
La Nina and El Nino are two great natural Pacific currents whose effects are so huge they resonate round the world.
El Nino warms the planet when it happens; La Nina cools it. This year, the Pacific is in the grip of a powerful La Nina.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
ping
The Global Warming religion is full of dips.
In other words, we’ve decided that global warming must be true despite the evidence to the contrary and so you must suffer.
Santa Claus .... the Easter Bunny .... the Tooth Fairy .... Global Warming
“PROMPTING SOME” LOL. Typical for the Beebs.
...the welfare state...
Wonder if the Nobel panel will recall the goreman’s award.
Does anyone seriously believe we know what the ‘Average World Temperature’ was in 1900? To within 1/100th of a degree?
Simple question……Obviously the world’s “carbon” output has not dropped since 1998…so then how is that temperatures have not risen since 1998?
Apparently more powerful than anything Mankind is doing....
“and they forecast a new record high temperature within five years.”
Notice how they now couch the forecast “within five years”
That way they can keep everyone on track to shake in their boots over the impending doom.
We can freeze our booties off for the next four years but they will claim that man made global warming is just around the corner.
What will the psychos do with all their scheduled seminars, fund raisers, wacko signs, and real banana boats who chain themselves to buildings to make their point.
Realize I'm not an expert (kawf) but I did get an A in Meteorology 101. Again, ad nausea, the SUN is responsible for climate change... :O)
Al “Covenient Opinion” Gore and John McCain will be SADD (Socialists Attention Deficit Disorder).
Want to drive them nuts? Ask an alarmist to define it.
They have yet to agree on a definition of “average global temperature.”
You mean there are natural forces that impact global temperature? Amazing. /s
Back in the 70's we were clearly early in a long term cooling trend..........
What? Global cooling? They should thank Bush for this. Had he signed the Kyoto Treaty, the earth would have gone to another ice age... /s
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