Meteorologists: No doubt humans cause climate change

By Julia Hayley
Reuters

Some of the world's leading meteorologists said on Wednesday they had no doubt that humans were responsible for global warming.

Rising temperatures, caused by a build up of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere, are widely expected to bring worsening floods, droughts and hurricanes. Melting ice caps could inundate densely populated parts of the planet if warming continues unchecked.

Most scientists agree emissions from coal, oil and gas are causing climate change, while a few argue there is no link.

Asked if natural warming cycles, as the earth has seen in the past, could be behind climate change, the director general of the Spanish National Meteorological Institute was adamant they were not.

"No, because the time scale is different. This phenomenon is happening much more quickly," Francisco Cadarso told Reuters on the sidelines of an international meteorological conference in Madrid.

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