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Global warming heating up

What the scientists were predicting over the years is coming true. The effects of global warming are surfacing. The temperature of the earth has risen sharply due to global warming and there are no signs of its abatement in the near future.

CJ: Abu Sheikh

Sat, Apr 05, 2008 15:59:34 IST

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THE FREAK weather, which was witnessed during winters, is likely to continue and harsh summers and prolonged dry spells are expected in the next few months.

This is due to the continuation of the long-term trend of global warming. The trend continues despite the cooling effect of the current La Nina the in the equatorial pacific region, according to the United Nations World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

Worldwide temperatures, this year, are expected to be above the long-term average, even though La Nina is also likely to persist through to the middle of 2008, the WMO said in a press statement issued in Geneva.

WMO secretary-general Michel Jarraud said that while there will always be both cooler, and warmer individual years, the overall trend in temperatures is still upwards.

“For detecting climate change you should not look at any particular year, but instead examine the trends over a sufficiently long period of time,” he said.

Parts of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean have experienced significantly cooler sea-surface temperatures in the recent months, WMO reported. Cooling has also been recorded over China, Central Asia, Turkey and the Middle East.

But Australia, Scandinavia, Russia, the western United States, Mexico, north-eastern Brazil and the southern parts of South America have generally experienced higher-than-average temperatures since last December.

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