![The global ocean buoy network has been expanding in recent years. Accounting for small, consistent offsets between temperatures measured by buoys and by ships reveals a greater global warming trend than previously calculated for the past 15 years. Image: Maintenance workers on an ocean buoy, NOAA.](https://sotp.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Kukui_and_NOAA_buoy_1.177308-300x251.jpg)
New data support the conclusion
The “hiatus” was mostly illusion.
They say that the keys
Are the poles and the seas …
The next job: reduce the confusion.
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Further reading:
Global warming “hiatus” never happened, study says, Wendel (2015) EOS
This is one in a series of posts by Katherine Allen, a researcher in geochemistry and paleoclimate at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University.