Global warming may 'stop', scientists predict
By Charles Clover, Environment Editor
Last Updated: 6:01pm BST 30/04/2008
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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.
Melting icebergs: The study predicts the IPCC's 0.3ºC temperature rise
for the next decade may not happen
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.
