Topic: Global Warming News - ENVIROMENT: Global warming? Next decade could be cooler - Daily Times

Global warming could take a break in the next decade thanks to a natural shift in ocean circulations, although Earth's temperature will rise as previously expected over the longer term, according to a study. Climate scientists in Germany base the prediction on what they believe is an impending change in the Gulf Stream the conveyor belt that transports warm surface water from the tropical Atlantic to the northern Atlantic and returns cold water southwards at depth. This will lead to slightly cooler temperatures in the North Atlantic and in North America and Europe, and also help the temperatures in the tropical Pacific to remain stable, they suggest. Last year, scientists in the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said that by 2100, global average surface temperatures could rise by between 1. In a commentary also published by Nature, Richard Wood, a scientist at Britain's Hadley Centre for climate change, said it was useful to get some idea about the jagged variability of global warming. read more

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