People in the climate community are scratching their heads trying to understand the so
called hiatus in the warming.
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 centur
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 centur
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 centur
in warming in the first fifteen years of the 21st centur
in the first fifteen years of the 21st century.
Dr Cowtan added: «Recent studies suggest that the so -
called «
hiatus»
in warming is
in part due to challenges
in assembling the data.
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.»
Only by being forced to explain better and more accurately because of the so -
called and non-existent «
hiatus»
in warming is the pedagogy here finally being improved.
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.
What do you
call the mental process which allows a man to say «What's firmly established is that the climate is
warming» while also holding that «There's been a burst of worthy research aimed at figuring out what causes the stutter - steps
in the process — including the current
hiatus / pause / plateau [
in 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.
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.
Now for other reasons, I believe it may turn out to be a real event, which is why I say my bet is that
in fifteen years or so we will look back and say that the rate of
warming over those fifteen years was higher than the so
called hiatus.
If
warming restarts then we might reframe the discussion accordingly, but
calling the present cessation
in surface
warming a
hiatus is assuming that future
warming will resume.