2007 'second warmest year' in UK
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Met Office figures show last year was the second warmest on record in the UK.
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Â· More bad weather on way for Wales and MidlandsÂ· Worst of rain stays away from battered north
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Emissions of greenhouse gases have more than doubled the risk of European heatwaves similar to last year&#39;s, according to a study by UK scientists.
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Temperatures have risen more than two degrees on average over the past 10 years, and average snow levels have dropped 8.8 inches over the same period, and global warming is the reason why, say results from a study measuring conditions over a 40-year period.
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Data collected from around the globe indicate that 2007 ranks as the second-warmest year on record, according to a new analysis from climatologists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
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Climatologists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City have found that 2006 was the fifth warmest year in the past century.
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A new analysis of last year's near-record U.S. temperatures suggests human activity was the biggest factor in the 2006 warming, according to researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Met Office predicts snow but dismisses rival forecaster's reports of temperature drop to -17C
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The Arctic is warming almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet due to global warming, according to an eight-nation report compiled by 250 scientists.
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Britain has recorded 0.7 percent in economic growth for the third quarter over the previous quarter and 2.7 percent for the year, the office for National Statistics said in its second estimate.
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A deadly UK heatwave may be imminent, but climate change may mean fewer temperature-related deaths, a report says.
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Human activity has raised the risk of more heatwaves like last year&#39;s, which gave Europe probably its hottest summer since 1500, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Global warming (news - web sites) is heating the Arctic almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet in a thaw that threatens the livelihoods
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Human activity has raised the risk of more heatwaves like last year's, which gave Europe probably its hottest summer since 1500, scientists said on Wednesday.
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January is on course to be the second warmest the UK has seen since 1914, the Met Office says.
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The forecasters who predicted this summer's rain expect one of the coldest winters on record - but the Met Office is not so sure.
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Britain could soon swelter in the highest temperatures ever recorded, weather forecasters said, with a 30 percent chance that Wednesday will become the country&#039;s hottest day ever.