El Ni�o to Make World's Hottest Year
One of Britain's leading climate experts has warned that this year the world will face the hottest on record due to a combination of global warming and the El Ni�o.
According to Professor Jones at the University of East Anglia, the effects of global warming, that has brought drought to the Horn of Africa and is melting the Arctic ice shelf, will be heightened by combining with the phenomenon of El Ni�o, caused by above-average sea temperatures in the Pacific.
Climate experts have warned that if global warming and the El Ni�o are combined, the world will face extreme conditions across the globe, and 2007 will be much warmer than 1998, the hottest year on record. Jones said that the British Isles began with stormy conditions across the UK, global warming could bring drought to Indonesia, and there could be a deluge in California during the next 12 months.
He said, 밯e can identify that global temperatures have increased by one to two tenths of a degrees Celsius over the last ten years,� stressing, 밫his phenomenon will make the globe much warmer.�
American Scientist Jim Hansen first warned of global climate change in 1988, forecasting that global warming would run out of control unless we take action to reduce carbon emissions. He also stated, 밯e should not burn all the fossil fuels on the earth. If we do, there will be no ice in the Arctic, the sea level will rise, and the extinction of species will take place in the end.�
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