Saturday, August 2, 2008

Dutch climate warming up faster than world average

Antara (Indonesia): The Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI) has concluded that the climate in the Netherlands is becoming warmer much faster than the global average, Dutch media reported Friday. The temperature in the country has risen twice as fast as the world average since 1950, a report published by the national weather center Thursday was quoted as saying.

Temperatures at the weather station in the central Dutch town of De Bilt, where the KNMI is headquartered, are now 1.5 times higher than 50 years ago. The trend has become stronger in the last five years, during which temperatures were higher than normal for 80 percent of the time. Years 2006 and 2007 were the warmest since measurements began three centuries ago. This development is "very unlikely" a result of natural causes, the weather center said....

The Sint Elisabethsvloed on November 18th and 19th 1421, from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Wikimedia Commons

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