date: Fri Feb 25 10:24:42 2000
from: Mike Hulme <m.hulme@uea.ac.uk>
subject: FW: Global Temperature Rising At Record Rate-not protectively
to: p.jones

>From: Merylyn McKenzie Hedger <merylyn.hedger@ukcip.org.uk>
>To: gjjenkins@meto.gov.uk, m.hulme@uea.ac.uk, 
>	david_warrilow@detr.gsi.gov.uk, penny_bramwell@detr.gsi.gov.uk
>Subject: FW: Global Temperature Rising At Record Rate-not protectively mar
>	ked
>Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:30:03 -0000
>
>This may have reached you already.
>> Subject:	Global Temperature Rising At Record Rate
>> 
>> 
>> >                 CLIMATE CHANGE: Global
>> >                 Temperature Rising At Record Rate 
>> > 
>> >              The Earth's surface is warming at an "unprecedented rate"
>> >         that was not expected to be seen until well into the 21st
>> century,
>> >         according to a new analysis of temperature records by US
>> >         scientists. 
>> >              Throughout much of the 20th century, warming occurred at a
>> >         rate of just over 1 degree per century. But since 1976, warming
>> >         has occurred at a rate of "nearly 4 degrees per century."
>> >         According to Tom Karl, the US National Oceanic and
>> >         Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) climatologist who led the
>> >         study, the sudden spike may indicate a "change point" at which
>> >         the Earth's surface begins warming at a faster rate (Usha
>> >         McFarling, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb). 
>> >              The analysis will be published in the 1 March issue of the
>> >         journal Geophysical Research Letters. 
>> >              Ants Leetmaa, director of the NOAA's Climate Prediction
>> >         Center, called the findings "intriguing" and said that if they
>> > hold
>> >         out for the next couple of years "then it will be pretty clear
>> >         evidence that something really unusual is going on" (Curt
>> >         Suplee, Washington Post, 23 Feb). 
>> >              The sharp increase is difficult to explain through natural
>> >         causes, said Jonathan Overpeck, director of the University of
>> >         Arizona's Institute for the Study of Planet Earth. "There is no
>> >         known precedent of natural forces that could have given rise to
>> >         the temperatures of the last decade," he said (McFarling, Los
>> >         Angeles Times). 
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