Well for those of you sitting back thanking the world for finally waking up to the problem of global warming, cosey and warm in that reassurring glow of global cooperation on the matter - have you heard of something called Global Dimming?
This is a large cooling effect, casued by man made air pollution, that has been totally (thats right) totally omitted from the current climate modelling, and has been masking the true impact of carbom emissions on gloabl temperature. The stuff recently reported regards UN classification of glabal warming as being "very likely" to be due to human activity; Al Gores "An Inconvenient Truth"; international and national climate change targets for the next century - all of these do NOT include this effect.
If you plug it in temperatures have risen by 1.6 - 2 degrees making the 2 degree temp rise target by the end of this century already redundant.
2007-02-04
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