According to several informative news organisations, including The Telegraph and The American Spectator to name a couple, Global Warming is currently on hold, and has been for approximately 15 years. This does not however, mean that we are out of the red and everything is now going to be fine - Met. Office scientists have in fact warned that the issue is still a threat and will speed up again.
There has apparently been no increase in the average of worldwide surface temperatures since the late 1990s, while it was suggested in the early to mid 2000s that the speed and threat of Global Warming was rapidly increasing. Ultimately, skeptics are suggesting that climate change is not as large a threat as the experts had previously predicted. Three new reports released earlier this year from the Met Office claim that the oceans have played a part in 'disguising' Global Warming, and have absorbed greater amounts of heat, preventing recognition of the difference caused from the surface level. Conclusively, because of deep oceans, we do not receive the brunt of the effects of Global Warming and they are almost undetectable from the level of the surface.
This natural ocean cycle could possibly delay the earlier stage predictions previously warned of global warming by approximately five to ten years, however it will resume in the future. Researchers also suggest that 'Other factors including a number of volcanic eruptions since 2000 and changes in the Sun's activity, could also have masked the effect of greenhouse gases by providing a slight cooling effect'. We could now be looking at another five years before the surface temperatures begin to rise, but the long-term effects that had previously been forecast will be unaffected. Surface temperatures around the globe are already high and remain that way, with twelve out of fourteen of the warmest years recorded occurring since 2000.
Unexplained to the public, despite scientist awareness of climate change and the rate it would progress, climate change was never guaranteed to occur at a consecutive rate and would include periods of stable temperatures of approximately ten to twenty years. This is currently what we are experiencing within this 'hold on Global Warming'. Although, I'm still confused on why global warming is still not being televised and raising awareness as much as it has in previous years. I feel as though I haven't seen an advert with the polar caps melting and polar bears sitting on a bit of ice floating in the Arctic for a long time.
What are your opinions on Global Warming? How do you believe society is handling it, whether referring to the general community, or those belonging to higher powers? How aware are you of Global Warming and the effects previously forecast? If you had the power to do anything (realistically) to stop/slow it, what would you do? Discuss.
There has apparently been no increase in the average of worldwide surface temperatures since the late 1990s, while it was suggested in the early to mid 2000s that the speed and threat of Global Warming was rapidly increasing. Ultimately, skeptics are suggesting that climate change is not as large a threat as the experts had previously predicted. Three new reports released earlier this year from the Met Office claim that the oceans have played a part in 'disguising' Global Warming, and have absorbed greater amounts of heat, preventing recognition of the difference caused from the surface level. Conclusively, because of deep oceans, we do not receive the brunt of the effects of Global Warming and they are almost undetectable from the level of the surface.
This natural ocean cycle could possibly delay the earlier stage predictions previously warned of global warming by approximately five to ten years, however it will resume in the future. Researchers also suggest that 'Other factors including a number of volcanic eruptions since 2000 and changes in the Sun's activity, could also have masked the effect of greenhouse gases by providing a slight cooling effect'. We could now be looking at another five years before the surface temperatures begin to rise, but the long-term effects that had previously been forecast will be unaffected. Surface temperatures around the globe are already high and remain that way, with twelve out of fourteen of the warmest years recorded occurring since 2000.
Unexplained to the public, despite scientist awareness of climate change and the rate it would progress, climate change was never guaranteed to occur at a consecutive rate and would include periods of stable temperatures of approximately ten to twenty years. This is currently what we are experiencing within this 'hold on Global Warming'. Although, I'm still confused on why global warming is still not being televised and raising awareness as much as it has in previous years. I feel as though I haven't seen an advert with the polar caps melting and polar bears sitting on a bit of ice floating in the Arctic for a long time.
What are your opinions on Global Warming? How do you believe society is handling it, whether referring to the general community, or those belonging to higher powers? How aware are you of Global Warming and the effects previously forecast? If you had the power to do anything (realistically) to stop/slow it, what would you do? Discuss.
