Global temperatures this year will be lower than in 2007 due to the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said.
The World Meteorological Organisation's secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer.
This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory.
But experts have also forecast a record high temperature within five years, probably associated with another episode of El Nino.
BBC website: Global temperatures 'to decrease'
UPDATE - The Ministry of Truth have now changed the BBC headline to:
Global warming 'dips this year'
AND the text has been changed too, including the removal of, "probably associated with another episode of El Nino."
Interesting comments: Greenland Icesheet melting in the NE sector has now been confirmed to be from underlying geothermal causes by Ohio State Univ. A wealth of information continues to stream in confirming the importance of a natural driver of global warming and may eventually establish endogenous energy supplies to geothermal reservoirs via the joule spike mechanism as a principal element in global climate change. The latest confirmation is geothermal melting of the Greenland Icesheet (von Frese et al., web reports from studies at Ohio State University). In addition, volcanic activity under the active melt regions of Antarctica; inner core jerks associated with the “Great Pacific Climate Change” in the early 1970’s; seismic links to El Nino established by Walker in the late 1980’s; CO2 lagging the heat peaks in ice core data by 600-800 years and lagging five years in modern geophysical proxies (Quinn, unpublished); many known climatic links to sun spot activity and orbital parameters which have not been explained by solar light intensity variations; CO2 liquid bubbles the size of basketballs ascending from deep ocean trenches documented by Pacific Marine Environmental Labs at Washington State; earthquake swarms in the Mediterranean associated with sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies and ocean circulation reversals during the 2003 European heat wave which caused over a thousand deaths; earthquake swarms Nov. 2002 in Alaska preceding huge snow melts causing the Iditarod dog sled race to move further north in 2003; the last 3 of the 9.0 + earthquakes associated with killer hurricanes in the Gulf Coast… Besty-1965 preceded by 9+ Chile 1964 earthquake, Camille-1969 preceded by 9+ Alaskan 1969 earthquake, and Katrina-2005 preceded by 9+ Indonesian 2004 earthquake; increased lightning strike anomalies preceding the intersection of 3 hurricanes in central Florida in 2004; and anomalous lightning along the Wiggins arch preceding hurricane Katrina 2005; melting of the Artic ice cap directly over the underlying mid-ocean ridge warming confirmed by deep ocean profiles; SST anomalies reflecting the underlying ridge configurations in the eastern Pacific and the Guaymas basin rift during 1998 El Nino; deep double layered thermoclines associated with warm sterile (hydrothermal) waters off the coast of Peru found in deep ocean profiles during the 1982 El Nino; simultaneous worldwide squid and marine mammal deaths and beachings in the late summer 2002, wildfire outbreaks during coronal mass ejections in 1859 fires in Europe and Western U.S. destroyed telegraph systems, in 2003 wildfire storm in Southern California. Just to name a few items linked to the electrical driver and tectonic modulator of climate change. Greenhouse gasers are poofting up the wrong proverbial tree.
These cuts CANNOT happen naturally.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7310000/newsid_7313200/7313260.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&bbcws=1
Keep digging, Ender, it will be one hell of a grave when you are done.
Meanwhile back at the temperature decline, yes, regardless of cause, we are overdue for another major eruption. And given the past few have coincided with El Ninos, the next one is more likely to be during a La Nina. That is, cooling an already cooled planet.
At which point those dwindling tribes of Bimbolopithicus climatensis will look for a scapegoat among them to be sacrificed to an indifferent deity. Might one suggest Hansen?
"Subduction has been demonstrated a fantasy"
WHAAAAT???
Have you studied to much mobile belt cratonic geology Louis?
Ender,
"Are you telling me now economics is not a science?"
Are you joking or being serious!?
I am not an economist, but I'd be surprised if anyone claimed, economics to be "science"?
The basic idea of the stock market is sound.
If not for the greedy speculators, the movements would be small and only reflect supply and demand situations. (apart from some failed ventures of course)
Take CC for instance, if you really believe in it and have a penchant for gambling, you could make some real money betting on futures, that depended on climate, whether.
Of course if you all, got it wrong, you could lose your shirt also.
Some people are doing this very thing, but they are also clever and using other peoples' money!
Ender: It so happens I pretty well sold out August 07.Does that make me a gun?
wjp - "Might be a good place start, where the up chart busts you and so do the down charts. "
Really wjp - the stock market dips and peaks however the trend so far has been a steady upward rise?
Does the term fish in a barrel mean anything to you?