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The 'pause' unpacked

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Short-term climate trends are sensitive to definitions, data and testing. This sensitivity underlies an alleged pause in global warming, and highlights the need for meaningful definitions to sustain claims that it was real. See Analysis p.41

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  1. Oceans and Atmosphere Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Hobart, 7001, Tasmania, Australia

    James S. Risbey

  2. School of Experimental Psychology and Cabot Institute, University of Bristol, Clifton, BS8 1TU, UK

    Stephan Lewandowsky

  3. School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, Crawley

    Stephan Lewandowsky

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Risbey, J., Lewandowsky, S. The 'pause' unpacked. Nature 545, 37–39 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/545037a

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