| The average tempertures were exceptionally higher in 1998 because of the El Nino effect that year. The GW deniers who are continually looking for ways to discredit the truth of manmade climate change often use this year as a reference to argue later years as being much cooler even tho they were in fact much warmer on the average of previous years had it not been for the exceptionally warmer 1998 El Nino Year.
Globally, there is a warming trend of about 0.8C/1.44F since 1900, more than half of which has occurred since 1979. The great majority of the world's most respected climate scientists are still predicting the average global tempertures will continue to gradually rise in lock-step with the rise of co2 ppm in our atmosphere. The co2 will continue to rise until we develop and impliment a new clean energy industry and quit burning fossil fuels for energy. |