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