If it's, indeed, true that
the apparent pause in warming is mostly due to these least significant temperature observations then we have a good reason to say that the warming has not stopped at all, not even temporarily.
Further, since the SOI always reverts to a mean of zero, the factor can not have any long term effects and simply compensates with other factors to create
apparent pauses in warming.
Not exact matches
There has been much speculation about how the report will address an
apparent decrease
in the rate of
warming over the past few years, dubbed a «global
warming pause.»
The planet
warmed by 0.6 degrees over the prior 50 years, but occasional, unexplained temperature fluctuations of as much as 0.3 degrees countered the rise at times and resulted
in apparent pauses.
2013 An
apparent pause or «hiatus»
in global
warming of the atmosphere since 1998 is explained; the world is still
warming (as the next three record - breaking years would confirm).