Climate Experts Warn That Short-Term Snapshots Of Temperature Data Can Be Misleading: Focus Instead On The Bigger Picture
Monday, May 4, 2009 - 20:21
in Earth & Climate
In the hotly debated arena of global climate change, using short-term trends that show little temperature change or even slight cooling to refute global warming is misleading, write two climate experts in a paper recently published by the American Geophysical Union -- especially as the long-term pattern clearly shows human activities are causing the earth's climate to heat up.