2008: The year the world will cool down
The world will experience global cooling this year, according a leading climate scientist.
The head of the World Meteorological Organisation said La Nina - the weather phenomenon which is cooling the Pacific - is likely to trigger a small drop in average global temperatures compared with last year.
The prediction - which follows a bitterly cold winter in China and the Arctic - is prompting some sceptics to question the theory of climate change.
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The news that the earth appears to be cooling would seem to contradict most experts who say that global warming is melting ice at the Poles
However, the World Meteorological Organisation insists that this year's cooling has nothing to do with global climate change.
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