The British government proposed official data that the process of global warming has stopped since 1997.
According to the Met Office data on the average global temperature, no apparent changed occurred in the temperature from the year 1997 to August this year.
This data is the accumulation of the climate on three thousand places on the land and the sea that the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit gathered together.
It shows that there was a minor alteration in the climate from 1997 to 2010, but as the temperature decreased significantly, the rising has gone.
The Met Office have vociferously announced the data of year 2010 when the climate was unusually high, but this time it was announced only in the Internet so it was not featured in the media.
After 1880 when the reliable temperature measurement was first started, the average temperature increased up to 0.75°C, but it has stopped since 1997.
On this matter, Professor Judith Curry, the chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said that “The new data confirms the existence of a pause in global warming” and that “it was clear that the computer models used to predict future warming were ‘deeply flawed’.
Professor Curry added that since 1980, the cause of the global warming was mainly viewed as the greenhouse effect followed by the industrialization, but now “future projections of climate change needs to consider natural internal variability as a factor of fundamental importance.”However, some climatologists including Professor Phil Jones, a director of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, have argued that a period of fifteen to sixteen years is too short to draw a conclusion of the climate of the Earth.
The Met Office spokesperson also said that “Choosing a starting or end point on short-term scales can be very misleading” and that considering the inherent variability in the climate system, climate change can only be detected from multi-decadal timescales.
