http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242202/Could-30-years-global-COOLING.html
Professor Latif said: 'A significant share of the warming we saw from 1980 to 2000 and at earlier periods in the 20th century was due to these cycles - as much as 50 per cent. 'They have now gone into reverse, so winters like this one will become much more likely. All this may well last two decades or longer. 'The extreme retreats that we have seen in glaciers and sea ice will come to a halt. For the time being, global warming has paused, and there may well be some cooling.' Many meteorologists have blamed the current freeze on 'Arctic oscillation' - a weather pattern in which areas of high pressure have pushed the warming jetstream away from Britain. They have insisted this temporary change will have no effect on long-term warming patterns. But another expert, Professor Anastasios Tsonis, head of the University of Wisconsin Atmospheric Sciences Group, said MDOs will continue to determine global temperatures. He said: 'They amount to massive rearrangements in the dominant patterns of the weather, and their shifts explain all the major changes in world temperatures during the 20th and 21st centuries. We have such a change now.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242202/Could-30-years-global-COOLING.html#ixzz0dHY1qtXz On Jan 22, 4:02 am, Eric Swanson <[email protected]> wrote: > There's a good look at the problems faced by the climate change > community just published in NATURE. I think it's openly available for > all to read: > > http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100120/full/463284a.html > > There's also a link to a side box listing the usual denialist myths: > > http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100120/full/463284a/box/1.html > > And, a companion editorial as well: > > http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/463269a > > E. S. > --- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange
