Global Warming?

we might have made a mistake, lets try again,

is what officials at the Met office are saying, that is by 2017, temperatures will not have risen significantly for nearly 20 years, they concede that previous forecasts were inaccurate – and have come under fire for attempting to ‘bury bad news’ by publishing the revised data on Christmas Eve, a good old Fleet Street ploy is ever there was one,

now a press release, published yesterday, has confirmed that over the next five years temperatures will be 0.43 degrees above the 1971-2000 average, instead of the previously forecast 0.54 degrees – a 20 per cent reduction, this rise would be only slightly higher than the 0.4-degree rise recorded in  1998, an increase which is itself attributed by forecasters to an exceptional weather phenomenon, the revision means that no further significant increases to the planet’s temperature are expected over the next few years,

Bob Ward of the London School of Economics, said it would be wrong to interpret that warming had stopped, however, he also condemned the Met Office for releasing data without an explanation of its full meaning, ‘it’s true to say this isn’t the Met Office’s finest hour,’ he said, I must remember to look out for more forecasts that the Met Office does not want us to see next Christmas Eve.