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U.N. meteorologist predicts cooler summer
A U.N. meteorologist says the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific will likely mean slightly lower temperatures across the world this year.
World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Michel Jarraud told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would reduce temperatures by a fraction of a degree.
The effects of La Nina and El Nino in the Pacific resonate round the world. While El Nino warms the planet, La Nina cools it. This year, the Pacific is in the grip of a powerful La Nina current that has contributed to heavy rain in Australia and record low temperatures in parts of China, the BBC said Friday.
Jarraud, however, said temperatures this year will still be well above the average.
"When you look at climate change you should not look at any particular year," he said. "You should look at trends over a pretty long period and the trend of temperature globally is still very much indicative of warming."
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
The effects of La Nina and El Nino in the Pacific resonate round the world. While El Nino warms the planet, La Nina cools it. This year, the Pacific is in the grip of a powerful La Nina current that has contributed to heavy rain in Australia and record low temperatures in parts of China, the BBC said Friday.
Jarraud, however, said temperatures this year will still be well above the average.
"When you look at climate change you should not look at any particular year," he said. "You should look at trends over a pretty long period and the trend of temperature globally is still very much indicative of warming."
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
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It's all good and well that they are now saying the temperature may go up again in the next five years, but this isn't the bill of goods they've been selling. The reason we are supposed to be increasing taxes and crushing the world economy is that Anthropogenic Global Warming was purportedly relentlessly on the march, a disaster in the making, so awful that it's nearly too late! (add 12*e^45 exclamation points here)
Now we hear that temps haven't increased for a decade and will actually decrease this year. This is like someone trying to fudge a project at the 8th grade science fair. Wake up and call these jerks out before they screw the global economy up.