Fighting Global Warming While the Earth is Cooling

Editorial, Times of India | May 6, 2008

German researchers have reported that natural climate variability may offset the noticeable effects of human-induced global warming over the next decade, until 2020. ++ In the short term, policymakers should not ease efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions but welcome the break as a time to cooperate and plan the planet’s environmental future. ++ While a decade is a short amount of time and climate change an enormous challenge, technological exploits of the past century suggest solutions can realistically be hoped for and found.