A new controversial study claims that global warming has been slowing down since the early 2000s and is entering a hiatus. This paper refutes 95% of climate scientists beliefs about climate change.
According to Tech Times, there have been studies produced about a coming global warming hiatus for quite some time. However, each of these studies is typically dismissed by experts as exaggerated, not scientifically accurate or not backed up by enough evidence.
However, a group of climate experts is now supporting the idea of this global warming hiatus. But what exactly is this hiatus, and what does it mean for current theories about the climate?
The paper claims that previous climate models undervalued the cooling impacts of volcanic eruptions. In addition, they overestimated the heat produced by solar radiation at the beginning of the 21st century.
“There is a mismatch between what the climate models are producing and the observations are showing,” says the study’s lead author and climate modeler John Fyfe from Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis.
A previous study attempted to prove that climate change slowdown was indeed occurring, but failed as a result of the evidence denying that theory. That study involved an examination of global temperature change between 1950 and 1999, and then between 2000-2014. In the 2000s, the world was warming far more quickly than it had during the previous century.
Fyfe refutes this study, claiming that between 1972 and 1999 the world warmed faster than it did between 2000-2014, meaning the rate of warming is slowing down.
Climate scientists deviating from the sentiment held by 95% of their community is cause for intrigue, though the validity of Fyfe’s claims will have to await verification from the scientific community before they are accepted.