T&T: Global warming?

[LRZeitlin at aol.com]

Those who doubt the inexorable increase in global warming may be partly right 
according to a new study reported in Nature <
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7191/abs/nature06921.html>.

A team of German scientists, using a new climate model, predict that Earth's 
temperature is subject to decade long periods of oscillation around a rising 
norm. For the next few years temperatures in the Atlantic basin and Europe may 
stay the same, and even decline a bit, although the world's average 
temperature will be rising. They attribute this to changing patterns of ocean currents 
and high altitude winds. 

It is not a return to a "Little Ice Age" but rather a period when the 
temperature will not be rising as fast as predicted by simpler models. Don't sell 
your air conditioner stock yet.

Larry Z


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