redOrbit: Average global temperatures for 2008 should come close to 14.3C, the coolest since 2000 and 0.14C below the average temperature for 2001-07, according to preliminary estimates due for release next week by the Met Office. However, climate scientists say that doesn’t mean that global warming is on the decline. “Absolutely not,” said Dr Peter Stott of the Met Office’s Hadley Centre. “If we are going to understand climate change we need to look at long-term trends,” he said …