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To: bentway who wrote (764207)1/16/2014 12:43:08 PM
From: joseffy   of 1575936
 
]Climate change: The case of the missing heat[/url]
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Nature ^ | 15 January 2014 | Jeff Tollefson


Sixteen years into the mysterious ‘global-warming hiatus’, scientists are piecing together an explanation.___ For several years, scientists wrote off the stall as noise in the climate system: the natural variations in the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere that drive warm or cool spells around the globe. But the pause has persisted, sparking a minor crisis of confidence in the field. Although there have been jumps and dips, average atmospheric temperatures have risen little since 1998, in seeming defiance of projections of climate models and the ever-increasing emissions of greenhouse gases. Climate sceptics have seized on the temperature trends as evidence that global warming has ground to a halt. Climate scientists, meanwhile, know that heat must still be building up somewhere in the climate system, but they have struggled to explain where it is going, if not into the atmosphere. Some have begun to wonder whether there is something amiss in their models.

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