{"id":3927,"date":"2008-04-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3927"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:19:08","slug":"global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3927","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming Update #31- BBC can&#8217;t tell if it&#8217;s warmer or cooler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it is cooler (they say), but it&#8217;s going to get warmer (they say).<\/p>\n<p>Very confusing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/7329799.stm\"><strong>BBC NEWS | Science\/Nature | Global temperatures &#8216;to decrease&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>&#8230; But this year&#8217;s temperatures would still be way above the average &#8211; and we would soon exceed the record year of 1998 because of global warming induced by greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Scaife told the BBC: &quot;What&#8217;s happened now is that La Nina has come along and depressed temperatures slightly but these changes are very small compared to the long-term climate change signal, and in a few years time we are confident that the current record temperature of 1998 will be beaten when the La Nina has ended.&quot; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it is cooler (they say), but it&#8217;s going to get warmer (they say). Very confusing. BBC NEWS | Science\/Nature | Global temperatures &#8216;to decrease&#8217; &#8230; But this year&#8217;s temperatures would still be way above the average &#8211; and we would soon exceed the record year of 1998 because of global warming induced by greenhouse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6763,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions\/6763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}