BRENDA EKWURZEL: Global Warming hardly means end of winter | ScrippsNews

I'm a climate scientist. So it's a little frustrating when a snowstorm or a cold snap prompts people to ask me where global warming went.
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Remarkably, the 10 hottest years since the late-1800s have all occurred since 1997, and global average temperatures have been rising for decades. The only way climate scientists can account for such high temperatures is to take contributions from human activities into account, particularly extra carbon dioxide from burning coal and oil and destroying forests.

U.N. Chief Wants Obama at Climate-Change Summit - washingtonpost.com

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 9 -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appealed to President Obama to attend a hastily planned summit here in late March to promote international efforts to stem the pace of climate change, according to senior U.N. officials and delegates.

The U.N. chief is hoping to harness the new president's popularity to press for action to reduce carbon emissions before the world's leading economic powers -- known as the Group of 20 -- meet in London on April 2 to tackle the global financial crisis, according to the officials.
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But Obama has made no commitment to attend the meeting, according to U.S. officials. And the U.N. chief is planning to shelve the event if the American leader cannot come, according to U.N. diplomats.