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A wounding blow for global warming denialists
Claims that global warming is on “pause” are wrong, new research has found.
Many researchers have long thought that there had been a slowdown in the rate of global warming in recent years. It was a claim often made by those who doubt or downplay the effects of man-made climate change, who argued that the slowdown showed that warming was happening less quickly or extremely than claimed.
But new research published in the journal Science Advances supports previous studies that find scientists have been underestimating the rise in ocean temperatures for decades.

After the re-evaluation, scientists have suggested that what looked like a pause in temperatures between 1998 and 2014 didn’t seem to have happened at all.
The study finds that the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was right when it challenged the pause in a major paper published in Science in…