Study: Global warming ‘pause’ may last for 20 more years and Arctic sea ice has already started to recover

Pause: How the Earth's average temperature defied scientists' predictions by remaining almost the same

Daily Mail 3 November 2013

  • Study says warmer temperatures are  largely due to natural 300-year cycles
  • Actual increase in last 17 years lower  than almost every prediction
  • Scientists likened continuing pause to a  Mexican wave in a stadium

By  David Rose

The 17-year pause in global warming  is  likely to last into the 2030s and the Arctic sea ice has already  started to  recover, according to new research.

A paper in the peer-reviewed journal Climate  Dynamics – by Professor  Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology and  Dr Marcia Wyatt – amounts to a stunning challenge to climate science orthodoxy.

Not only does it explain the unexpected  pause, it suggests that the  scientific majority – whose views are represented  by the UN  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – have  underestimated  the role of natural cycles and exaggerated that of greenhouse  gases.

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