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Descendant of a [[Pakistani]] family, Latif was born in [[Hamburg]]. His father was an [[Imam]] at [[Fazle Omar Mosque]]. Latif graduated with a [[Diplom]] in [[meteorology]] in 1983. He worked since 1985 at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and is professor at GEOMAR Kiel, the Leibniz-Institute für maritme sciences. Mojib Latif is a regular guest at TV discussions about Global Warming. Latif himself has always been a described non-skeptic. |
Descendant of a [[Pakistani]] family, Latif was born in [[Hamburg]]. His father was an [[Imam]] at [[Fazle Omar Mosque]]. Latif graduated with a [[Diplom]] in [[meteorology]] in 1983. He worked since 1985 at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and is professor at GEOMAR Kiel, the Leibniz-Institute für maritme sciences. Mojib Latif is a regular guest at TV discussions about Global Warming. Latif himself has always been a described non-skeptic. |
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Latif has been erroneously attributed with the prediction that the global temperature will decrease in the next two decades.<ref>[http://thingsbreak.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/of-moles-and-whacking-mojib-latif-predicted-two-decades-of-cooling/ Of Moles and Whacking: “Mojib Latif predicted two decades of cooling”]</ref> At the UN's World Climate Conference 2009 in Geneva he talked about the hypothetical scenario that the short term variability of the global temperature might cause a global cooling for up to two decades even when the longterm global warming is still taking place. An article in New Scientist<ref> [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17742-worlds-climate-could-cool-first-warm-later.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news] World's climate could cool first, warm later, 04 September 2009 by Fred Pearce, Geneva newscientist</ref> claimed that Latif had predicted global cooling, while in reality it wasn't a prediction but just a reminder about the possibility of a scenario that climate scientists generally consider possible but unlikely. |
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==Selected publications== |
==Selected publications== |
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Mojib Latif | |
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| Born | September 29, 1954 |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
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| Fields | Meteorology |
| Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Meteorology |
Mojib Latif (born September 29, 1954) is a German meteorologist and oceanographer.
Descendant of a Pakistani family, Latif was born in Hamburg. His father was an Imam at Fazle Omar Mosque. Latif graduated with a Diplom in meteorology in 1983. He worked since 1985 at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and is professor at GEOMAR Kiel, the Leibniz-Institute für maritme sciences. Mojib Latif is a regular guest at TV discussions about Global Warming. Latif himself has always been a described non-skeptic.
Latif has been erroneously attributed with the prediction that the global temperature will decrease in the next two decades.[1] At the UN's World Climate Conference 2009 in Geneva he talked about the hypothetical scenario that the short term variability of the global temperature might cause a global cooling for up to two decades even when the longterm global warming is still taking place. An article in New Scientist[2] claimed that Latif had predicted global cooling, while in reality it wasn't a prediction but just a reminder about the possibility of a scenario that climate scientists generally consider possible but unlikely.
Selected publications
- Keenlyside, N. S. (2008). "Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector". Nature. 453 (7191): 84–88. doi:10.1038/nature06921.
{{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|month=(help); Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - Timmermann, A. (1999). "Increased El Niño frequency in a climate model forced by future greenhouse warming". Nature. 398 (6729): 694–697. doi:10.1038/19505.
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References
- ^ Of Moles and Whacking: “Mojib Latif predicted two decades of cooling”
- ^ [1] World's climate could cool first, warm later, 04 September 2009 by Fred Pearce, Geneva newscientist
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