Latest news 15 May 2010
According to the Met Office, scientists are calling for a new international project to “modernise global temperature records”.
In a report published in the journal Nature, Peter Stott from the Met Office and Peter Thorne, now of the NOAA Co-operative Institute for Climate and Satellites in North Carolina, US, have argued that it is “essential” for the climate community to share knowledge.
They suggest a single global database compiling all local daily and sub-daily temperature measurements in order to monitor changes on an hourly level in close locations.
Earlier this week, a report highlighted the possible affects of climate change on the world’s wildlife.
Published in the Science journal, the study found that 20 per cent of the world’s lizard species could be wiped out by 2080 because they are unable to cope with increasing global temperatures.
It is thought that the affects of global warming are already being seen today as the report claims that an estimated four per cent of local lizard populations have become extinct since 1975.
Posted by Mark Stephens
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