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Posted by Shalista on 1/17/2014, 1:28 pm
Climate change: The case of the missing heat

Sixteen years into the mysterious 'global-warming hiatus', scientists are piecing together an explanation.

The biggest mystery in climate science today may have begun, unbeknownst to anybody at the time, with a subtle weakening of the tropical trade winds blowing across the Pacific Ocean in late 1997. These winds normally push sun-baked water towards Indonesia. When they slackened, the warm water sloshed back towards South America, resulting in a spectacular example of a phenomenon known as El Niño. Average global temperatures hit a record high in 1998 - and then the warming stalled.

http://www.nature.com/news/climate-change-the-case-of-the-missing-heat-1.14525
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