WASHINGTON: A new analysis by the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration suggests a recent hiatus in global warming has not occurred.
A much discussed “slow down” in global warming did not actually happen and the heating up of the planet has continued apace since the turn of the century, a new assessment by the lead United States meteorological body has found.
Scientists from the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have instead pointed to biases in thousands of global temperature observations as a reason why the rise in global temperatures was thought to have slowed over the past 15 years.
They say once more complete data was included a new assessment of global temperatures found warming since 2000 was matching the pace of the later half of the 20th century, a period widely regarded as seeing significant human-caused global warming.
The so called global warming “slow down or “hiatus” has been the subject of numerous scientific studies and was considered in the last major assessment report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2013.
Climate sceptics have claimed the hiatus was evidence the atmosphere is not warming in response to human-caused greenhouse gases emissions or at least not by as much as global climate scientists have projected.
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