Weather.com - 4/16/13
Smoke is emitted from chimneys of a cement plant in Binzhou city, in eastern China's Shandong province in January. China, the world's largest producer of carbon dioxide, is directly feeling the man-made heat of global warming, scientists conclude in a recent study that linked the burning of fossil fuels to the country's rise in its daily temperature spikes. AP Photo
OSLO (Reuters) -- Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that has exposed gaps in their understanding and defies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions.
Often focused on century-long trends, most climate models failed to predict that the temperature rise would slow, starting around 2000. Scientists are now intent on figuring out the causes and determining whether the respite will be brief or a more lasting phenomenon.
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