Evidences of Global Warming (Photo : Reuters)
The most recent record of increasing air temperature will be insignificant when compared to how much Earth will heat up in 2100. A recent global warming study compared several models which reflected the present global warming slowdown.
According to the findings, long-term predictions remained unchanged in all four models, Nature reported.
Professor Matthew England, the Chief Investigator and lead author said, "This much hyped global warming slowdown is just a distraction to the task at hand," Eureka Alert reported.
"This shows that the slowdown in global warming has no bearing on long-term projections - it is simply due to decadal variability. Greenhouse gases will eventually overwhelm this natural fluctuation," England added.
In order to aggregate the long-term temperature predictions through short-term factors, researchers gathered 200 climate models and calibrated each one to 2100. Each model was then compared, dividing into two categories- those that matched the present slowdown was one group while those that didn't formed another group.
With the use of carbon emissions IPCC projections, researchers were able to find out that "greenhouse" effect went unstoppable all throughout the present century and that despite reducing emissions, global warming will peak 2040.
Global warming by this time will be beyond the threshold set at 2 degrees Celsius- a value targeted by the Australian government and IPCC's safe limit figure. In the past, climate change activists insisted that the ongoing slowdown in the global temperature increase is the main cause of the abandonment of both national and international efforts to minimize carbon emissions.
"Our global warming findings have shown that while there might be short-term decreases in global temperature averages, the long-term warming effect is the most inevitable consequence of unstoppable increase in the concentrations of greenhouse gas," England stated.
