Stephan Lewandowsky, professor at the School of Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol and the Cabot Institute, has led a team of researchers who have analyzed 40 scientific articles published between 2009 and 2014 that specifically spoke of this pause or interruption in global warming . Well, they have not found in them any consistent argument or a precise definition of that supposed pause, of when it began or how long it will last.
To do this, they compared the temperature data and trends in the different recent decades and did not see any difference during this hypothetical interruption of climate change with respect to other periods. According to the authors of the research, what happens is that if you take a short period of time, less than 12 years, you can always find a climatic “pause” in it , but not because anything special has happened, but because the samples Small time periods do not provide enough statistical value to detect trends.
Professor Lewandowsky asks: “How is it that there are so many studies on the concept of“ interrupting global warming ”when it does not exist? This idea has originated outside the scientific community, and has ended up making a hole in the discourse scientist for the constant challenge of the deniers and the voices against warming, which have a lot of media coverage ”.
Research from the University of Bristol concludes that using terms like “pause”, “hiatus” or “interruption” creates uncertainty in public opinion and in the scientific community. For Lewandowsky, “perhaps scientists can argue that when they talk about pause they do not mean that global warming has stopped, but they should be more precise when talking about temperature fluctuations , because they have not occurred in the long term. There are none. proof that heating has stopped ”.
