In a revelation that deals a serious blow to the already-bogus claims of climate change deniers, top scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) declared this week that the so-called “hiatus” in global warming—some have called it a “Faux Pause”—was never a real thing.
“Our new analysis suggests that the apparent hiatus may have been largely the result of limitations in past datasets, and that the rate of warming over the first 15 years of this century has, in fact, been as fast or faster than that seen over the last half of the 20th century,” the researchers write in a paper published Thursday in the journal Science.
“These results do not support the notion of a ‘slowdown’ in the increase of global surface temperature,” the authors said.
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The Washington Post‘s Chris Mooney detailed the background of the spurious claim:
According to United Press International, a major difference in NOAA’s new data, aside from including the last two years—which broke previous heat records—is a series of improvements in calculations, most notably in a correction that figures in the difference between temperatures measured by buoys and ships.