The World Meteorological Organization's secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer.
This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory.
But experts say we are still clearly in a long-term warming trend - and they forecast a new record high temperature within five years.
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Global warming is beginning to sound a lot like the warning I heard all the time in the 90s, that an earthquake was going to split California from the rest of the US. In fact, they made more than one movie about it.
My theory is that many people HAVE to have some kind of apocalyptic threat hanging over their heads. Right now, some believe it's Muslim terrorists and others believe it's global warming. (Previously it was nuclear armageddon, or Y2K, or the "Big One" or SARS or bird flu or the UN's New World Order or...)
Meanwhile, you can't beat this headline:
Lloyd's warns of a lack of natural disasters
Lloyd's of London warned yesterday that an absence last year of natural disasters or man-made accidents was putting pressure on firms to reduce premiums in 2008.
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Cue very small violin.
