World warming despite cool Pacific and Baghdad snow - Reuters

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Source: Reuters

World warming despite cool Pacific and Baghdad snow
Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:51am EST

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

OSLO (Reuters) - Climate change is still nudging up
temperatures in the long term even though the warmest
year was back in 1998 and 2008 has begun with unusual
weather such as a cool Pacific and Baghdad's first snow
in memory, experts said.

"Global warming has not stopped," said Amir Delju,
senior scientific coordinator of the World Meteorological
Organization's (WMO) climate program.

Last year was among the six warmest years since records
began in the 1850s and the British Met Office said last
week that 2008 will be the coolest year since 2000,
partly because of a La Nina event that cuts water
temperatures in the Pacific.

"We are in a minor La Nina period which shows a little
cooling in the Pacific Ocean," Delju told Reuters. "The
decade from 1998 to 2007 is the warmest on record and
the whole trend is still continuing."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL1171501720080111

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1. Hoping that we continue to get hit with rain here in California

The CA Supreme Court has ruled that the farmers in San Joaquin valley may have their water allotment cut back by as much as 40% because their water use negatively impacts the environment.

If it rains a lot, this won't happen. If it doesn't, the water cut back combined with rising gas/oil prices means that food prices will spike even higher.