The pause

In climate science, the pause is a period beginning in 1996 during which there has been an absence of global warming.[1] The El Niños of 1998 of 2010 made these years unusually warm. Global warming believers claim that the pause is an artifact of the choice of start and end dates used by skeptics. But Christopher Monckton has calculated global temperature change with various start and end dates to show that the phenomenon is robust.[1] Monckton suggests that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, an oscillating pattern of ocean currents, may be responsible for both the current pause, as well as for the earlier warming.

## References[edit]

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Monckton, Christopher, "It’s official: no global warming for 18 years 1 month", October 2, 2014 .