LONDON, 12 May, 2017 — Just as one group of European scientists has defined the «so -
called global warming hiatus» as an illusion, a second group has brought it back to tenuous reality — this time as a problem of definition.
Not exact matches
In June 2015, NOAA researchers led by Thomas Karl published a paper in the journal Science comparing the new and previous NOAA sea surface temperature datasets, finding that the rate of
global warming since 2000 had been underestimated and there was no so -
called «
hiatus» in
warming in the first fifteen years of the 21st century.
The error is small enough to have confidence that the ocean heat content has been increasing in the past 15 years, during the so
called «
hiatus» in
global warming.
Dan Barrie, program manager at NOAA,
called the research «compelling» and said: «[It] provides a powerful illustration of how the remote eastern tropical Pacific guides the behaviour of the
global ocean - atmosphere system, in this case exhibiting a discernible influence on the recent
hiatus in
global warming.»
From 1998 to 2013, the rate of
global mean surface
warming slowed, which some
call the «
global warming hiatus.»
The widespread mainstream media focus on the slowed
global surface
warming has led some climate scientists like Trenberth and Fasullo to investigate its causes and how much various factors have contributed to the so -
called «pause» or «
hiatus.»
The reason they returned to the 1.5 to 4.5 range is because there was virtually no
global warming since 2000 (the so
called «
hiatus»), which is embarrassingly inconsistent with a large climate sensitivity.
But Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at the University of Cambridge, UK,
called the study careful and persuasive, and said: «I think it shows clearly that the so -
called «
hiatus» does not exist and that
global warming has continued over the past few years at the same rate as in earlier years.»
LONDON, 13 December, 2015 — The so -
called, and much debated,
hiatus in
global warming may never have happened, according to new research
LONDON, 7 June, 2015 − Forget about the so -
called «
hiatus» in
global warming.
There have been attempts in the scientific literature to correct some misconceptions, such as a myth regarding an alleged recent «slow - down» in
global warming, a so -
called hiatus.
There is still no empirical - statistical evidence for the alleged «pause» /»
hiatus» /» stop», or whatever you want to
call it, of
global warming.
The whistleblower - scientist, John Bates, claimed that NOAA broke its own rules for scientific integrity when it published a noteworthy scientific study debunking the so -
called «
hiatus» in
global warming.