Therefore, IMO, it is a waste to continue throwing money at
poorly directed research as the developed world has been doing with climate research for the past two or three decades.
The crux of Bates» claim is that NOAA, the federal government's top agency in charge of climate science, published a
poorly -
researched but widely praised study with the political goal of disproving the controversial global warming hiatus theory, which suggests that global warming slowed down from 1998 until 2012 with little change in globally - averaged surface temperatures — a
direct contrast to global warming advocates» claim that the earth's temperature has been constantly increasing.