Global warming STALLED since 1998

The much hue and cry about the widening of the Ozone layer and the ever increasing global warming has started to show its results.

Now meteorologists have concluded that the Global warming has STALLED since 1998, negating earlier forecasts predicted a much steeper rise in global temperatures.

Although the global warming continues to increase, however its growth rate has somewhat stalled as compared to years before 1998. 

Officials say that by 2017, temperatures will not have risen significantly for nearly 20 years.
They concede that previous forecasts were inaccurate – and have come under fire for attempting to ‘bury bad news’ by publishing the revised data on Christmas Eve.

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Dinosaur flatulence may have warmed Earth

In a major new climate finding, researchers have calculated that dinosaur flatulence could have put enough methane into the atmosphere to warm the planet during the hot, wet Mesozoic era.

Like gigantic, long-necked, prehistoric cows, sauropod dinosaurs roamed widely around the Earth 150 million years ago, scientists reported in the journal Current Biology on Monday.

And just like big cows, their plant digestion was aided by methane-producing microbes.

“A simple mathematical model suggests that the microbes living in sauropod dinosaurs may have produced enough methane to have an important effect on the Mesozoic climate,” researcher Dave Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores University said in a statement.

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The dying glacier - Watch time lapse video

Anyone with doubts about the legitimacy of climate change need only glance at James Balog's time lapse footage of Alaska's Columbia Glacier.

Captured between May 2007 and September 2011,by the photographer and his team, the stunning images show the the alarming rate at which the world is losing its precious glaciers.

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AK-01 Columbia Kadin Narrated from Extreme Ice Survey on Vimeo.

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Giant plumes of methane bubbling to surface of Arctic Ocean worry Scientists

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Russian scientists have discovered hundreds of plumes of methane gas, some 1,000 meters in diameter, bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean. Scientists are concerned that as the Arctic Shelf recedes, the unprecedented levels of gas released could greatly accelerate global climate change.

Igor Semiletov of the Russian Academy of Sciences tells the UK's Independent that the plumes of methane, a gas 20 times as harmful as carbon dioxide, have shocked scientists who have been studying the region for decades.

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