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Study Ties Global Warming Hiatus to Pacific Cooldown
2013-08-28 20:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Scientists probing the mystery of the so-called "global warming hiatus" may have made a breakthrough. According to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, a persistent area of unusually cool sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean could explain why, despite ever-increasing amounts of manmade greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, global average surface temperatures have increased at a slower rate during the past 15 years. By running sophisticated computer models that...
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