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We show that even in the presence of global warming short periods of cooling are normal and should be expected.

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Why is it important?

Climate change deniers often point to short periods of global cooling that climate change has halted, This is patently false.

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Short periods of global cooling are to be expected and irrelevant to the reality of global warming.

Michael Wehner Wehner
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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This page is a summary of: A temporary hiatus in warming of extreme temperatures is not unusual, nor inconsistent with model simulations of human-induced climate change, Environmental Research Letters, July 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing,
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/071001.
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