Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, said the long-term trend of global warming — already blamed for bringing drought to the Horn of Africa and melting the Arctic ice shelf — is set to be exacerbated by the arrival of El Niño, the phenomenon caused by above-average sea temperatures in the Pacific Ocean. Extreme global weather patterns could bring drought to Indonesia and leave California under a deluge.
The warning was one of four sobering predictions from senior scientists and forecasters that 2007 will be a crucial year for determining the response to global warming and its effect on humanity.
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