The United Nations’ weather specialists from the World Meteorological Organization state that the cool temperatures we are currently facing are due to La Nina.
According to them, this well known phenomenon is just temporary and do not question the evidence of climate change and the
The United Nations’ weather specialists from the World Meteorological Organization state that the cool temperatures we are currently facing are due to La Nina.
According to them, this well known phenomenon is just temporary and do not question the evidence of climate change and the urgency for us to act towards its mitigation.
La Nina have a slight importance in Europe, and is at its strongest in the Pacific Ocean. For further details, please
As the short WMO press release states :
The current La Niña event, characterized by a cooling of the sea surface in the central and eastern Equatorial Pacific, is a “climate anomaly”, part of natural climate variability. The global climate on average is warming, despite the temporary cooling brought about by La Niña.”
This La Niña started in the third quarter of 2007 and is likely to persist through to the middle of 2008. It is rare for a La Niña event to persist for two years or more, such as occurred from early 1998 to early 2000. The likelihood of the current La Niña continuing for such 