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According to the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the northern hemisphere has had
the warmest winter since records began over 125 years ago. Land and ocean temperatures were 0.72C (1.3F) degrees
above average.
The NOAA refuses
to accept greenhouse gases as causal for the steady rise in temperatures.
Representatives of the agency have sited El Nino as a key
contribution.
An NOAA
representative, Jay Lawrimore, discounts man-man pollution as a cause for
temperature climbing. However, Mr. Lawrimore also stated that the NOAA's
research was part of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC)
research process.
Contradictorily,
the IPCC's research found that temperature rising "very likely" is caused by
humans. The IPCC is 90% certain that recent climate change is caused by
humans.
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