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Reports That Say Global Warming Has Stopped?The latest
announcement from the UK Met Office states that over the next
five years warming of the Earth surface will slow down, although
the overall predictions for the coming century still remain
unchanged.  It is reported that over the past decade, the
warming effect of greenhouse gases gas been counteracted by
natural cycles, slowing down atmospheric warming. The UK Met
office conducted a small study based on the analysis of these
natural cycles, and estimated an average figure of 0.43°C higher
temperatures than these for the period between 1970 and 2000.
The interesting point here is that the error bar indicates
possible range of 0.28 and 0.59 °C increase.  Short term
predictions of climate change have presented a big challenge for
climatologists. Some even believe that the atmosphere could
enter a cold phase resulting in cooler sea surfa