Washington — A reported pause in global warming between 1998 and 2014 was false, according to US-British research published Wednesday that confirmed the findings of a controversial US study on ocean warming. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of York, England, corroborated the results of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) research paper in 2015. Their findings were reported in the US journal Science Advances. The NOAA paper had shown ocean buoys now used to measure water temperatures tend to report slightly cooler temperatures than older ship-based systems. The switch to buoy measurements had hidden some of the real-world warming during the 1998-2014 period, the NOAA scientists concluded. The NOAA paper had drawn outrage from some scientists who insisted there had been a "global warming hiatus" and from critics who consider global warming a hoax. The US House of Representatives, controlled by the Republican Party, had e...
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