Reconciling differences in interpretations of global warming hiatus
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science has conducted an analysis of the events surrounding the global warming hiatus of 1998 and 2012 and has concluded that inconsistencies reported by scientists can be attributed to natural short-term weather variations, incomplete data and different methods of modeling. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group contends that the evidence still shows that long-term global warming is and has been occurring for multiple decades and that it will continue to do so in the future. James Risbey and Stephan Lewandowsky with the Oceans and Atmosphere Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization and University of Western Australia offer a News & Views take on the work done by the team in the same issue.