Despite deep chill, global warming is still a peril: scientists

PARIS (AFP)

“If we look at the trajectory over the last 160 years, it overlays a large natural variability, and that’s what causes confusion.”

The cooler weather that was a hallmark of 2008 can be explained partly by La Nina, a reversal of the phenomenon by which warm waters build up on the surface of the Pacific, said Jarraud.

“The problem is that people are confusing weather with climate,” Susan Solomon, a top scientist on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), said in a recent interview.

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