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Here's a good article from a couple of years ago warning against overreacting to the 'global warming hiatus' from 1998 to 2012. Good advice at the time and in hindsight.
http://www.nature.com/news/climate-change-the-case-of-the-missing-heat-1.14525
I've been mentioning signal and noise ratios and the requirements for longer term trends when discussing global warming. Here's a write-up with a description of this phenomena and a statistical study showing why what we are observing is statistically expected. Don't get too excited over 3 or 4 year trends.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/apr/27/new-study-global-warming-keeps-on-keeping-on
Despite consistently being hit with news like this: https://thinkprogress.org/march-set-remarkable-global-warming-record-dfa2349c84c5
I think that we are watching a small random warming on top of a consistent and fast anthropogenic global warming trend.
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