Just a few weeks ago, Britain's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research added more fuel to the fire with its latest calculations of global average temperatures.
According to the Hadley figures, the world grew warmer by 0.07 degrees Celsius from 1999 to 2008 and not by the 0.2 degrees Celsius assumed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And, say the British experts,
when their figure is adjusted for two naturally occurring climate phenomena, El Niņo and La Niņa, the resulting temperature trend is reduced to 0.0 degrees Celsius -- in other words, a standstill.