…just happened. First there was this report in the media (including the TOI, front page news, some weeks back) questioning global warming, not overtly, just mild skepticism. Then the BBC, of all people, ran this report–
This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.
And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.
So what on Earth is going on?
Time to start humming Dylan? The cynic in me says no.
