More bad news for the environment…… We are facing record-breaking temperatures as the sun's activity increases, leading the planet to heat up significantly faster than scientists had predicted for the next five years, according to a new study about to be published in Geophysical Research Letters.
The paper written by Judith Lean, of the US Naval Research Laboratory, and David Rind, of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies has also concluded that the relative stability in global temperatures in the last seven years is primalrily down to the decline in incoming sunlight associated with the downward phase of the 11-year solar cycle, together with a lack of strong El Niño events. The study coincides with another piece of research from climatologists that the world is likely to be entering a new El Niño period. This potentially could mean that temperature rises in the next couple of years could be even higher than the new research has indicated.
