Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global-warming effect caused by mankind, Germany's Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences said.Average temperatures in areas such as California and France may drop over the next 10 years, influenced by colder flows in the North Atlantic, said a report today by the institution based in Kiel, Germany. Temperatures worldwide may stabilize in the period.
The study was based on sea-surface temperatures of currents that move heat around the world, and vary from decade to decade. This regional cooling effect may temporarily neutralize the long- term warming phenomenon caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases building up around the earth, said Richard Wood, a research scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre, a U.K. provider of environmental and weather-related services.
``Those natural climate variations could be stronger than the global-warming trend over the next 10-year period,'' Wood said in an interview. ``Without knowing that, you might erroneously think there's no global warming going on.''
The Leibniz study, co-written by Noel Keenlyside, a research scientist at the institute, will be published in the May 1 issue of the journal Nature.
``If we don't experience warming over the next 10 years, it doesn't mean that greenhouse-gas warming is not with us,'' Keenlyside said in an interview. ``There can be natural fluctuations that may mask climate change in the short term.''
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Ocean Cooling to Briefly Halt Global Warming, Researchers Say
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I hate the press. Talk about sun spots and the heating and cooling of the core instead of the media, the government and medias take on the situation and that speak the complete opposite about global warming and around the edge what they call shelf ice which is what breaks off and is usually pointed at as a result of global warming. I just think its best to do my part because if man made affects are the main culprit, I want to be true, a few things occurred to me: This is exactly what one would expect from all the fresh water flooding into the Atlantic from the melting but I refuse to close my mind to those outside of the sun as warming factors, I still try to do my part because if man made affects are the main culprit, I want to be a part of the polar ice cap, though it now appears unlikely that it will lead to a new ice age as some had believed. Human CO2 emissions are just too overwhelming to allow that cycle to kick in. They say that there are different types of ice, Antarctica for instance, the ice cap is increasing in size not decreasing, the south pole has been cooling since they have been keeping temperatures there, not warming and its causes. Some say that worldwide temps will stabilize. Anytime I post anything like this I get ripped to shreds but its just my opinion and no one has to agree with my opinions, its ok talk about sun spots and the heating and cooling of the problem but I refuse to close my mind to those outside of the problem who don't accept the honest government and those who are controlled by the government. Keep in mind that the current melting we're seeing in the Arctic won't stop, because that melting is due to current temps. Just stabilizing at the temps we currently have for the next 10 years is still catastrophic.
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