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'Climategate' jibes fly over El Niño impact on warming

By Fred Pearce

29 June 2010

The echoes of “climategate” rumble on with the publication of a in which some of the researchers involved take issue with a suggestion that greenhouse gases are not primarily responsible for global warming.

A paper claims two-thirds of global warming in the past 30 years was caused by the growing influence of the warm phase of the El Niño climate cycle in the Pacific Ocean – and, by inference, not by greenhouse gases. The analysis was conducted by John McLean of Applied Science Consultants in…

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