Making sense of the early-2000s warming slowdown
J. C. Fyfe, G. A. Meehl, M. H. England, M. E. Mann, B. D. Santer, G. M. Flato, E. Hawkins, N. P. Gillett, S. P. Xie, Y. Kosaka, and N. C. Swart
Nature Climate Change (24 February 2016)
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2938
It has been claimed that the early-2000s global warming slowdown or hiatus, characterized by a reduced rate of global surface warming, has been overstated, lacks sound scientific basis, or is unsupported by observations. The evidence presented here contradicts these claims.