Statistics says the long-term global warming trend continues | John Abraham

A new study finds no statistically significant deviation from the long-term global warming trend

A new study has just been prepared for an upcoming climate meeting of the US Climate Variability and Predictability Program. This group has an annual summit and this year will have a special science session with papers and presentations devoted to the so-called "hiatus". The "hiatus" has taken many meanings. In the popular press, it is often used to falsely claim that global warming stopped. As I've written many times, global warming has not stopped; the Earth has been continuing to gain energy because of human emissions of greenhouse gases.

In other cases, the "hiatus" refers to a reported slowdown in temperature increases. This too is not seen in the ocean data or in sea level rise. It is only seen in surface temperatures (temperatures of the surface of land and ocean regions).