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2007 to be 'warmest year yet'
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July 26, 2005 - Floods in PakistanPosted by Ninja T. Penguin Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(News24.com).
London - The coming year is likely to be the warmest on record around the world, climate change experts at Britain's Met Office said on Thursday.
The global temperature is predicted to be 0.54 degrees Celsius above the 1961-1990 average of 14 degrees Celsius, the meteorological organisation said in a statement.
It added that there was a 60% probability that 2007 would be as warm or even warmer than the current warmest year on record, 1998.
The potential for a record is linked to the presence of a moderate El Nino weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean, which is "expected to persist through the first few months of 2007", the Met Office said.
"The lag between El Nino and the full global surface temperature response means that the...
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July 26, 2005 - Floods in PakistanPosted by Ninja T. Penguin Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(News24.com).
London - The coming year is likely to be the warmest on record around the world, climate change experts at Britain's Met Office said on Thursday.
The global temperature is predicted to be 0.54 degrees Celsius above the 1961-1990 average of 14 degrees Celsius, the meteorological organisation said in a statement.
It added that there was a 60% probability that 2007 would be as warm or even warmer than the current warmest year on record, 1998.
The potential for a record is linked to the presence of a moderate El Nino weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean, which is "expected to persist through the first few months of 2007", the Met Office said.
"The lag between El Nino and the full global surface temperature response means that the...
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