A lot of us having been pointing out one of the big problems with the global warming theory: a long plateau in global temperatures since about 1998. Most significantly, this leveling off was not predicted by the theory, and observed temperatures have been below the lowest end of the range predicted by all of the computerized climate models.
So what to do if your theory doesn’t fit the data? Why, change the data, of course!
Starting in at least early 2013, a number of scientific and public commentators have suggested that the rate of recent global warming has slowed or even stopped. The phenomena has been variably termed a “pause, a slowdown, and a hiatus.…
But as a team of federal scientists report today in the prestigious journal Science, there may not have been any pause at all. The researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) adjusted their data on land and ocean temperatures to address residual data biases that affect a variety of measurements, such as those taken by ships over the oceans. And they found that newly corrected and updated global surface temperature data from NOAAs NCEI do not support the notion of a global warming hiatus.