Sentences with phrase «slowdown in global warming over»

We found that when the HadCRUT4 data are extended to cover the whole globe, some of the apparent slowdown in global warming over the past 16 years disappears.

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The finding challenges previous arguments that a hot spot north of Cape Hatteras over the past few decades was due to a slowdown of circulation in the North Atlantic, which is itself due to global warming.

The recent slowdown in global warming has brought into question the reliability of climate model projections of future temperature change and has led to a vigorous debate over whether this slowdown is the result of naturally occurring, internal variability or forcing external to Earth's climate system.

The PDO has been in a cool phase for the past decade and some research has tied that to the global warming slowdown over that time.

This time period is too short to signify a change in the warming trend, as climate trends are measured over periods of decades, not years.12, 29,30,31,32 Such decade - long slowdowns or even reversals in trend have occurred before in the global instrumental record (for example, 1900 - 1910 and 1940 - 1950; see Figure 2.2), including three decade - long periods since 1970, each followed by a sharp temperature rise.33 Nonetheless, satellite and ocean observations indicate that the Earth - atmosphere climate system has continued to gain heat energy.34

In 2012, for example, Fox News grossly mischaracterized a British government report while declaring that global warming was «over,» and, last year, Representative Lamar Smith began «investigating» the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after the federal agency published evidence challenging the idea of a global warming slowdown.

The updated data shows a statistically significant global warming trend over the 1998 - 2012 period and the authors note that their results «do not support the notion of a «slowdown» in the increase of global surface temperature.»

One issue much cited by the climate doubters is the slowdown in global warming that has occurred over the past 15 years.