KIND OF LIKE THE CURRENT PAUSE IN EVOLUTION:

The 17-year pause in global warming is likely to last into the 2030s and the Arctic sea ice has already started to recover, according to new research.

A paper in the peer-reviewed journal Climate Dynamics - by Professor Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Dr Marcia Wyatt - amounts to a stunning challenge to climate science orthodoxy. 

Not only does it explain the unexpected pause, it suggests that the scientific majority - whose views are represented by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - have underestimated the role of natural cycles and exaggerated that of greenhouse gases. 

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