Desperate to keep the faux pause alive as the world warms, deniers have turned to what may be the last two scientists with any official credibility: Spencer and Christy. We say "official credibility" because, while the academic community has long since lost respect for them due to their repeated errors (and Spencer's rant about "global warming Nazis"), these two still oversee the University of Alabama-Huntsville satellite record for NOAA and NASA.
And because that record doesn't account for the oceans, which absorb 90% of the planet's heat, it shows 2014 as being "only" the third warmest on record. So the Daily Caller and other usual suspects are frantically trying to distract the media and public from the complete records of NOAA, NASA, JMA and the UK Met which all seem to be saying that 2014 was the hottest year on record.
Yet even the release from Christy and Spencer holds that 2014 continues the warming trend since 1978 and that the last 13 years have averaged 0.18°C (about 0.33°F) above the 30-year baseline average. (Though this doesn't stop Christy and Spencer from taking the angle in the release that 2014's heat is "not special.")
At the end of the day, and even if you ignore the alarming amount of heat getting stored in the oceans, the atmosphere has experienced sustained warming over recent decades, and this, somehow, is evidence for the pause…?
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