The supposed blip in warming fueled climate skeptics and distracted researchers. It turned out to be a hiccup in the data. SN100
Even after these studies were published, the hiatus remained a favored topic among climate skeptics, who used it to argue that concern over global warming was overblown. Congressman Lamar Smith, a Republican from Texas who chaired the House of Representatives’ science committee in the mid-2010s, was particularly incensed by the 2015 NOAA study. He demanded to see the underlying data while also accusing NOAA of altering it.
E. OTWELL; SOURCE: NASA, NOAA, MET OFFICE HADLEY CENTRE. HADCRUT5 DATA WAS SET TO A BASELINE OF 1850–1900. NOAA AND NASA DATA WERE VERTICALLY ALIGNED WITH IT USING A REFERENCE PERIOD OF 1981–2010. Science relies on testing hypotheses and questioning conclusions, but here’s a case where probing an anomaly was taken arguably too far. It caused researchers to doubt their conclusions and spend large amounts of time questioning their well-established methods, says Stephan Lewandowsky, a cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol who has studied climate scientists’ response to the hiatus.
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