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Sol Invictus
10-12-2009, 08:50 PM
Paul Hudson
BBC
October 12, 2009

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.

So what on Earth is going on?

Climate change sceptics, who passionately and consistently argue that man’s influence on our climate is overstated, say they saw it coming.

Read entire article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stm)

Tabiti
10-12-2009, 08:55 PM
Wrong forecast. We're expecting a new Ice age now;)

Damião de Góis
10-12-2009, 08:58 PM
We now get much less rain here than before, from what i remember.

Tabiti
10-12-2009, 09:00 PM
Every global change in weather can be explained with the different periods of Solar activity.

Poltergeist
10-12-2009, 09:01 PM
What happened to global warming?

It cooled down, obviously.

Sol Invictus
10-12-2009, 09:02 PM
Every global change in weather can be explained with the different periods of Solar activity.

Exactly. They're called sun spots.