That Global Warming Hiatus? It Never Happened. Two New Studies Explain Why. – Inside Climate News
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Article Synopsis – Two new studies have concluded the supposed global warming hiatus was “fueled in part by incomplete data and erroneous projections that have since been corrected”. Though it has long been obvious that “if there had been any blip in the trends it was temporary”, climate deniers used it to push their agenda. “There was a natural slowdown in the rate of warming during roughly the decade of the 2000s due to a combination of volcanic influences and internal climate variability, but there was no actual ‘hiatus’ or ‘pause’ in warming,” Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University and an author of the climate modeling study, said. To read the actual article click here.