Cooler Climate Could Prevail in Europe and North America Next Decade: Is Global Warming Over?
Image courtesy of Richard Simmon/NASA To put it succinctly: not a chance. Just because I know there are those who will gleefully point to this study as proof that global warming is all a big hoax (*cough* Senator James Inhofe *cough*), let me start off this post by quoting one of the study’s authors, Noel Keenlyside: “We want to make very clear that we don’t want to say that [anthropogenic] global warming is not here.” He followed up by noting that the cooling trend, if it does occur, will likely only be a baseline natural fluctuation — one that will have no impact on the prevailing global warming trends. Now, to get back to the actual meat of this study, Keenlyside predicts that Europe and North America could soon experience a cooler climate due to natural variations in the North Atlantic’s and tropical Pacific’s ocean currents.
