“The only sort of ‘true’ definition of a hiatus would be if global warming actually stopped,” he added, “and there’s no evidence in any operational datasets today that that happened.”Regardless of the definition, to whatever the extent the global warming slowdown existed, it’s definitely over now. How Exxon went from leader to skeptic on climate change research »So the hiatus is over? Some argued that global warming predictions didn’t match the actual data during that time period because they didn’t include complex short-term climate factors that are poorly understood. That doesn’t mean that the long-term trend isn’t there; human-caused carbon dioxide emissions continue to fuel global warming. “In a time coinciding with high-level political negotiations on preventing climate change, sceptical media and politicians were using the apparent lack of warming to downplay the importance of climate change….

Source: Los Angeles Times May 03, 2017 17:54 UTC