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Originally Posted by go_disc_golf
Did you even read beyond the headline?  |
Seriously. At some point you have to wonder how irrational people will become to cling to their preconceived notions.
When you get past the headline you see:
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The WMO points out that the decade from 1998 to 2007 was the warmest on record.
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"La Nina is part of what we call 'variability'. There has always been and there will always be cooler and warmer years, but what is important for climate change is that the trend is up; the climate on average is warming even if there is a temporary cooling because of La Nina."
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Adam Scaife, lead scientist for Modelling Climate Variability at the Hadley Centre in Exeter, UK, said their best estimate for 2008 was about 0.4C above the 1961-1990 average, and higher than this if you compared it with further back in the 20th Century.
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