"The planet's temperature curve rose sharply for almost 30 years, as global temperatures increased by an average of 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.25 degrees Fahrenheit) from the 1970s to the late 1990s. "At present, however, the warming is taking a break," confirms meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. Latif, one of Germany's best-known climatologists, says that the temperature curve has reached a plateau. "There can be no argument about that," he says. "We have to face that fact.""
Climate change appears to have stalled just before the upcoming world summit in the Danish capital, where thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, business leaders and environmental activists plan to negotiate a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Billions of euros are at stake in the negotiations, meaning who is going to get the slush fund that cap and trade 'creates' to stop global warming. I guess that makes it a real crises!
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The most telling thing of all is how disappointed Letif sounds. I can't remember---when Chicken Little realized he was wrong, was he relieved, or embarrassed?
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