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A paper just came out in the journal Science that says there was no pause. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/06/04/federal-scientist

• toomuchtodo 11y ago
  The key takeaway: > Noting that “buoy data have been proven to be more accurate than ship data,” the new study applies a new “bias correction” to address the difference between them.
  • kbutler 11y ago
    ..by adding a correction to the more accurate buoy data, generating a combined dataset that does not match trends in the satellite data, gold-standard terrestrial data, balloon data, or oceanic temperature data. It also reduces the long-term temperature trend to the pre-1950 trend (i.e., pre-anthropogenic trend). This is a paper that requires a significant degree of corroboration rather than simple endorsement because of its publication.
    • briandear 11y ago
      Pre-1950 trend? I don't get it. What happened in 1950?
      • kbutler 11y ago
        1950 is generally accepted by both AGW skeptics and proponents as a time before which human influence on climate was not discernable. That is, the warming trend before 1950 was natural, not human-caused. AGW skeptics assert this places a burden of proof on AGW proponents to show that warming since 1950 is beyond what could naturally occur.