New study shows there is a hiatus and that the pause is real.
Blahahhaha. Michael Mann is a co-author.
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v6/n3/full/nclimate2938.html
"It has been claimed that the early-2000s global warming slowdown or hiatus, characterized by a reduced rate of global surface warming, has been overstated, lacks sound scientific basis, or is unsupported by observations. The evidence presented here contradicts these claims."
Article about new study:
http://www.examiner.com/article/new-paper-shows-there-was-a-global-warming-hiatus-this-century
Some excerpts:
In this new paper, the authors
show there is a "mismatch between what the climate models are producing and what the observations are showing," says lead author John Fyfe, a climate modeller at the Canadian Center for Climate Modelling and Analysis in Victoria, British Columbia.
Snarking aside, this new paper says that natural variability (like volcanic eruptions, solar radiance, ocean heat uptake, etc...) are important elements in evaluating our climate. As such, they should be factored in when trying to interpret the temperature record and the millions of variables that affect our climate.
Susan Solomon, a climatologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge,
says that Fyfe’s research helps put "twenty-first-century trends into perspective, and clearly indicates that the rate of warming slowed down at a time when greenhouse-gas emissions were rising dramatically."