Forecasts of climate changeare about to go seriously out of kilter. One of the world's top climate modellers said Thursday we could be about to enter one or even two
decades during which temperatures cool.
"People will say this is global warming disappearing," he told more than 1500 of the world's top climate scientists gathering in Geneva at the UN's World Climate Conference.
"I am not one of the sceptics," insisted Mojib Latif
of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University,
Germany. "However, we have to ask the nasty questions ourselves or
other people will do it."
Few
climate scientists go as far as Latif, an author for the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But more and more agree that
the short-term prognosis for climate change is much less certain than once thought.
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FTA: "In many ways we know more about what will happen in the 2050s than next year," said Vicky Pope from the UK Met Office.
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Or rather you think you know more about what will happen in the 2050's than next year.
The great think about making predictions 40 years into the future is that nobody will remember what predictions you made.