Retired meteorologist William Kininmonth has told Sky News a “slow steady warming” has been taking place “well before” carbon dioxide started to increase in the atmosphere. Mr Kininmonth said the warming or cooling of the oceans mirrored that of the atmosphere, and the rate of warming has been “about one degree per century which really is not very much”. “Recent observations from the corals in the trop oceans have pointed to this warming has been taking place since around about 1800, 1820,” he said. “It’s been a slow steady warming that’s been taking place – it commenced well before carbon dioxide started to increase in the atmosphere. “I think we can look at it as being part of the natural processes of the climate system. “I don’t think we should be worried at all.”
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