• January 3, 2007 • The year 2007 will be the warmest on record due to a combination of global warming the climatic phenomenon known as "El Niño", warned experts from various countries.
According to a report published Monday by British newspaper The Independent, several experts on climate and weather forecasters predicted that this year will be crucial to see how human beings respond to global warming and its effects on the planet.
Scientists warn that over the next 12 months the Earth will suffer extreme weather conditions that could cause global level, for example, droughts in Indonesia and floods in the state of California, western United States.
According to The Independent, an English professor and expert on climate research Phil Jones, said the continuing trend of global warming will be exacerbated by the arrival of El Niño, a phenomenon caused by above-average temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.
The two factors combined will cause extreme weather conditions around the world and lead to make 2007 warmer than 1998, the year hottest in history.
American scientist Jim Hansen, who in 1988 was among the first to notice the phenomenon of climate change on the planet now lives, also predicts extreme weather conditions this year.
The practitioner told The Independent that global warming may become out of control and change the planet forever if no quick action is taken to reverse the increase of carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
"We can not burn all fossil fuels, if we do we will have a different planet," said Hansen, adding: "I mean a planet without ice in the Arctic, a planet where warming is so large that have important consequences such as increases in sea levels and extinction of species. "
Source: radiomundoreal.fm /
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