The Pause that Wasn't

Another new study confirms that there has not been a pause or hiatus in global warming, confirming the five other studies that have recently come to the same conclusion.  In short, every evaluation that suggested global warming has slowed down or paused was looking at too short a time frame to draw any conclusions.  Rather like saying global warming pauses every night.

"There has never been a pause in global warming unless you try to create one by looking at an insufficiently large number of data points," said lead author Stephan Lewandowsky, a social scientist and professor of psychology at the University of Bristol in the U.K

Here's a summary at InsideClimate

And in the meantime, The chairman of the House Science and Technology committee, Rep. Lamar Smith, is leading a witch-hunt against NOAA for publishing another paper with the same conclusion. He insists that NOAA release the data that they've already made publicly available.  And he insists they release the analytical methods that they've already made publicly available.  What's more disturbing - that the Chairman of the House Science and Technology committee doesn't believe in science, or that he's so ignorant of technology that he doesn't know how to click on links on NOAA's web site?