HC Deb 03 June 1997 vol 295 c157W
10. Mr. Corbyn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what research his Department has evaluated into the rise in global temperatures in the current year relative to the 1951 to 1980 average. [453]

Mr. Meacher

Monitoring by the Hadley Centre, supported by my Department, shows that in the first three months of 1997, global surface temperatures were 0.4 degrees Celsius above the 1951 to 1980 average.