The hiatus is a myth. The ice never stopped melting and the climate continued to heat.

Haitus? These years some of the hottest years on record. They gave birth to enormous icebergs from collapsing ice shelves and the Great Barrier Reef whitened along with other reefs globally in the same exact time period.

Enough!

November 22, 2018
By Laura Geggel

A seasonal ice beacon collects temperature data in the Arctic.

Credit: Ignatius Rigor/Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington

Evidence is mounting (click here) against the so-called climate change hiatus — a period lasting from 1998 to 2012 — when global temperatures allegedly stopped rising as sharply as they had before. This misconception can be explained, in part, by missing temperature data from the Arctic, a new study finds.

That seeming pause in rising global temperatures had been used as evidence by climate skeptics to suggest that the Earth wasn't really warming at an unnatural pace.

To get around the data gap, researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and China created the first global data set of surface temperatures. They filled in the missing puzzle piece with data taken from buoys drifting in the Arctic Ocean during the so-called global warming hiatus, the researchers said. [6 Unexpected Effects of Climate Change....