Not paused“This study certainly does not suggest that global warming has been halted,” said Martin Siegert, co-director of the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London. London: One of the most rapidly warming places on Earth in the past half century actually cooled in the past 20 years, according to research that may be seized on by those who have doubts about global warming. A separate paper also by the British Antarctic Survey published earlier this month in “Science” showed ocean warming is the primary cause of glacier retreat on the western Antarctic Peninsula. That suggests it may take years and further research to determine the direction of temperatures in the Antarctic and what they mean for the world. “It’s what we expect from natural variation in the atmospheric circulation interacting with a long-term warming trend.”The findings will feed the debate about the significance of a slowdown in the pace of global warming seen since 1998.

Source: Mint July 21, 2016 11:15 UTC